7. οἱγὰρκαθεύδοντεςκτλ.] There is no need to look here for any figurative reference of the words (e.g. Clem. Al. Paed. 11. 9:80, 1 τουτέστινἐντῷτῆςἀγνοίαςσκότῳ, Aug. ad Ps. 131:8): they are simply a statement of the recognized fact that night is the general time when men sleep and are drunken; cf. 2 Peter 2:13 ἡδονὴνἡγούμενοιτὴνἐνἡμέρᾳτρυφήν for the deeper blame associated with revelling in the day-time, and see Matthew 24:48 ff. for the possible source of the passage before us. The verbs μεθύσκω lit. ‘ make drunk’ and μεθύω ‘ am drunk’ are here virtually synonymous (‘ ohne merklichen Unterschied, ’ WSchm. p. 129), and nothing is gained by trying to distinguish them in translation (Vg. ebrii sunt … ebrii sunt, Clarom., Beza inebriantur … ebrii sunt). Νυκτός, gen. of time, cf. χειμῶνος Mark 13:18, and see WM. p. 258.