2 THESSALONIANS 3:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.”
For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat — the principle is unambiguous: labor is the condition of sustenance. The idle busybody (periergazomai) has no claim on the community's resources. Work is not optional but obligatory.
Church Fathers on 2 Thessalonians 3:10
And yet even if they had eaten, it would not have been for nought. “For the laborer,” he says, “is worthy of his hire.” Luke 10:7 See how in the former Epistle indeed he discourses somewhat more mildly concerning these things; as when he says, “We beseech you, brethren — that you would abound more and more — and that you study” 1 Thessalonians 4:1-11— and nowhere does he say, “we command,” nor “in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ,” which was fearful and implied danger, but…
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