<p>5:6- see on Mt. 24:4.</p><p><i>Let no one deceive you with empty words</i>- This would be appropriate to a warning to better control the platform and not allow false teachers to deceive the congregation with vain words, words lacking in or empty of the Spirit.</p><p><i>For because of these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience</i>- Those characterized by disobedience would surely refer to those who had heard the call to disobedience and refused it. The wrath of God is coming upon them in particular at judgment day. Paul may well have in view &quot;the wrath to come&quot; upon Israel in AD70 (Lk. 3:7; 1 Thess. 1:10; 2:16). In this case, &quot;the sons of disobedience&quot; would be the Jews, and those claiming they would not be so judged would be Judaist false teachers, who clearly were the big problem for Paul's churches.</p>