And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Paul says that the time has come when we must hasten to obtain our reward. This is what it means to wake up from sleep—to do good as if it were day, i.e., openly…. It is clear that if we live well after baptism and strive for love we are not far from the reward of the promised resurrection. For the good life of a Christian is the sign of future salvation. For when a person is baptized he is forgiven but not rewarded. Later, as he walks in newness of life, he is near to eternal life. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
