But and if the evil servant shall say in his heart: My master will defer his coming, and shall begin to smite the servants, and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken:
¶ Then began he to put forth to the people, this similitude: A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to farmers, and went himself into a strange country for a great season.
¶ This also we know, I mean the season, how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.