੧ ਥੱਸਲੁਨੀਕੀਆਂ 5:5

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5 ਕਿਉਂ ਜੋ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਸੱਭੇ ਚਾਨਣ ਦੇ ਪੁੱਤ੍ਰ ਅਤੇ ਦਿਨ ਦੇ ਪੁੱਤ੍ਰ ਹੋ। ਅਸੀਂ ਰਾਤ ਦੇ ਨਹੀਂ, ਨਾ ਅਨ੍ਹੇਰੇ ਦੇ ਹਾਂ।

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 16:8, John 12:36, Acts 26:18, Ephesians 5:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:5 - and Leviticus 11:16 - General Proverbs 2:13 - walk Isaiah 2:5 - come ye Isaiah 49:9 - to them Matthew 5:14 - the light Mark 13:33 - General Luke 1:79 - give Luke 4:18 - and Luke 12:38 - General John 12:35 - Walk Acts 2:15 - seeing Romans 13:11 - it is Romans 13:12 - works Philippians 1:7 - it is 1 Thessalonians 5:8 - who 1 John 2:8 - the darkness Revelation 3:3 - I will

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye are all children of light,.... Or enlightened persons, whose understandings were enlightened by the spirit of God, to see their lost state by nature, the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the insufficiency of their righteousness to justify them before God, the fulness, suitableness, and excellency of Christ's righteousness, the way of salvation by Christ, and that it is all of grace from first to last; to understand in some measure the Scriptures of truth, and the mysteries of the Gospel; to have knowledge of some things that are yet to be done on earth, as the bringing in of the fulness of the Gentiles, the conversion of the Jews, the destruction of antichrist, the second coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the change of living saints, and the rapture of both up into the air to meet Christ, the burning of the world, and the new heavens and new earth, where Christ and his saints will dwell; as also to have some glimpse of the heavenly glory, of the unseen joys, and invisible realities of the other world: and this the apostle says of them all, in a judgment of charity, as being under a profession of the grace of God, and in a church state, and nothing appearing against them why such a character did not belong to them:

and the children of the day; of the Gospel day, in distinction from the night of Jewish darkness; and of the day of grace which was come upon their souls, in opposition to the night of ignorance and infidelity, which was past; and of the everlasting day of glory, being heirs of, and having a right unto, and a meetness for the inheritance of the saints in light:

we are not of the night, nor of darkness; that is not the children of darkness, as the Syriac and Arabic versions read; and the former changes the person, and reads, "ye are not the children of the night", c. of the night of the legal dispensation, or of Gentile ignorance or of a state of natural darkness, in unregeneracy and was no need to write unto them concerning the time and season of Christ's coming, and lays a foundation for the following exhortations.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye are all the children of light - All who are Christians. The phrase” children of light” is a Hebraism, meaning that they were the enlightened children of God.

And the children of the day - Who live as if light always shone round about them. The meaning is, that in reference to the coming of the Lord they are as people would be in reference to the coming of a thief, if there were no night and no necessity of slumber. They would always be wakeful and active, and it would be impossible to come upon them by surprise. Christians are always to be wakeful and vigilant; they are so to expect the coming of the Redeemer, that he will not find them off their guard, and will not come upon them by surprise.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Thessalonians 5:5. Ye are all the children of light — Ye are children of God, and enjoy both his light and life. Ye are Christians-ye belong to him who has brought life and immortality to light by his Gospel. This dispensation, under which ye are, has illustrated all the preceding dispensations; in its light all is become luminous; and ye, who walked formerly in heathen ignorance, or in the darkness of Jewish prejudices, are now light in the Lord, because ye have believed in him who is the light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory and splendour of his people Israel.

We are not of the night, nor of darkness. — Our actions are such as we are not afraid to expose to the fullest and clearest light. Sinners hate the light; they are enemies to knowledge; they love darkness; they will not receive instructions; and their deeds are such as cannot bear the light.