How long will you lie there, slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
Pay attention, stupid among the people! Fools, when will you comprehend?
“How long will you naïve ones love simplicity, you scoffers delight in scoffing, and you fools hate knowledge?
Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will starve.
Do not love sleep, lest you become poor. Open your eyes, and you will be satisfied with food.
As a door turns on its hinges so a slacker turns on his bed.
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep—
Go to the ant, you slacker— consider its ways and be wise!
Yet it prepares its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
The fool folds his hands together and eats his own flesh.
O Jerusalem, purify your heart from wickedness, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
There came a man sent from God, whose name was John.
Besides this, you know the time—that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first came to trust.
for everything made visible is light. This is why it says, “Wake up, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Messiah will shine on you.”