"... It is interesting that Plutarch the moralist also urges his audience to be awake and sober and contrasts this with being asleep or drunk using these same terms (Prin. iner. 781D). 1 Thessalonians 5:7 is a sort of gloss on, or illustration from ordinary life of what has just been said, explaining that sleepers and those who get drunk generally do so at night. The implication is that Christians are not of the night, nor should they be given to these sorts of “night moves.” “What is true at the level of everyday human experience applies on the religious and ethical plane.” Christians are held to God’s twenty-four hours of daytime standard. Verse 8 states the consequences of being daytime people. We must be awake, sober, and put on the appropriate clothing to deal with the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.” Notice the reference here to the famous triad—faith, hope, and love (compare 1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Corinthians 13). Here we have the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet is said to be the hope of salvation, seen as something to be experienced in the future, an imagery further developed in Ephesians 6:14–17. In both texts there is an indebtedness to Isaiah 59:17 where God wears the helmet of salvation on his head ..."