so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.
let us not sleep: "Sleep" speaks of a kind of moral stupor, an indifference to the demands of righteousness. "Watch ye therefore:" Jesus says, "for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping" (Mark 13:35-36).