“While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.”
As the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. The bridegroom's delay — the master who seemed delayed in Matthew 24:48 — produces the sleep of all ten virgins. The sleep of both the foolish and the wise communicates that the difference between them is not the sleep but the oil: the wise sleep but have oil; the foolish sleep and have no oil.
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