But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Ver. 4. Should overtake you as a thief] Though it come upon you as a thief in a time uncertain. Free you are from the destruction of that day, though not altogether free from the distraction of it, till somewhat recollected you remember that now your redemption draweth nigh. Hence the saints love Christ's appearing, 2 Timothy 4:8; look for it with outstretched necks, and long after it, Revelation 22:20 .