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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Sleeping here the apostle calls those who remain in evil, as being immovable toward virtue and immersed in dreamlike delusions. Such, indeed, are the affairs of the present life, in no way differing from the visions of sleep. Furthermore, by drunkenness he means not only drunkenness from wine, but from all passions, as that which draws a person out of his ordinary state and darkens the ruling faculty of the soul, that is, the mind. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
And the reason for this is the suitability of a certain time; those who sleep or get drunk do so at night. But the night is not for us: so then, let us not sleep, as others do. And so Paul says: for those who sleep, sleep at night, that is, at night they get some rest and during the day they are active. "When the sun rises, they get them away and lie down in their dens" (Ps. 104:22). And again "Man goes forth to his work and to his labor until the evening" (Ps. 104:23). …
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