John Gill - Exposition
John Gill
Then Joseph being raised from sleep,.... That is, being awaked out of sleep, τουυπνου "that sleep", into which he either naturally fell, whilst he was meditating on the affair of Mary's being with child; or rather into which he was cast by the Lord, on purpose that he might have a revelation of the will of God to him in a dream; and rising up from his bed or place where he was, immediately and...