And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
And that, ([ kai (G2532 ) touto (G5124 )], rather, 'And this' [do]), knowing the time ('season') - "these last days" (Hebrews 1:2), "the end of the world" (Hebrews 9:26); that is, the final economy of grace, before the second coming of Christ,
That now it is high time, х hoora (G5610) eedee (G2235)] - 'that now is the hour' for us
To awake out of sleep - of stupid, fatal indifference to eternal things:
For now is our salvation - `the salvation,' or simply 'salvation' (in the sense of Romans 5:9-10; Romans 8:24).
Nearer than when we (first) believed. This is in the line of all our Lord's teaching, which represents the decisive day of Christ's second appearing as at hand, to keep believers ever in the attitude of wakeful expectancy, but without reference to the chronological nearness or distance of that event.