For you were once darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Not, he says, by your own virtue, but through the grace of God has this accrued to you. That is to say, you also were sometime worthy of the same punishments, but now are so no more. Walk therefore as children of light. What is meant however by children of light, he adds afterwards.