<p>5:6<i>So then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober</i>- The allusion would be to the foolish girls who slept (Mt. 25:5 s.w.). This would explain the otherwise strange phrase &quot;as do the rest / the others&quot;. Those &quot;others&quot; would be the foolish girls, and Paul is writing as to the wise girls. The allusion is also to the Lord's command to the weak believers in Gethsemane to not sleep, but watch- which they failed to do (see on Mt. 26:41). This conforms that &quot;the rest&quot; refers not to the world generally but to the failed believers.</p>