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Romans 13:12 (WEB)
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.

Fathers and councils · 11

Jerome, Against Jovinianus Book 1
“And he gives his reasons for this advice: “Knowing the season, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 11, 12, 14.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 60
““The night is far spent, the day is at hand.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 12.
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Augustine of Hippo, Confessions XIII.18Book XIII
“…signs of times; because “old things have passed away,” and “behold all things are become new;” and “because our salvation is nearer than when we believed;” and because “the night is far spent, the day is at hand;” and because Thou wilt crown Thy year with blessing, sending the labourers of Thy goodness into Thy…” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 11, 12.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 7
“Not that there is any nature of darkness.” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 12.
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Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 35
“…is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast away the works of darkness, and put on us the armor of light; let us walk honestly as in the day.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 12, 13.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on John Homily 55
“Not opposing Christ, but saying the same thing, if not in words yet in sense; for he also saith, “The night is far spent, the day is at hand.” ( Rom. xiii. 12.)” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 10
“But that it is even at the doors, hear Paul saying, “The night is far spent, the day is at hand;”and again, “He that cometh will come, and will not tarry.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 12.
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Cyprian of Carthage, On Jealousy and Envy
“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lusts and wantonness, not in strifes and jealousy.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 12, 13.
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Tertullian, On Modesty Chapter 7
“Nay, but this whole world is the one house of all; in which world it is more the heathen, who is found in darkness, whom the grace of God enlightens, than the Christian, who is already in God’s light.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 John i. 5–7; ii. 8; also Rom. xiii. 12, 13; 1 Thess. v. 4, 5.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor II.4Book II
“For the apostle decrees that, “putting off the works of darkness, we should put on the armour of light, walking honestly as in the day, not spending our time in rioting and drunkenness, in chambering and wantonness.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 12, 13.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies Book 3
“Non enim “carnis curam gerere ad concupiscentias” didicimus; “honeste autem tanquam in die,” Christo, et Dominica lucida vitæ institutione, “ambulantes, non in comessationibus et ebrietatibus, non in cubilibus et impudicitiis, non in litibus et contentionibus.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiii. 12, 13, 14.
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