2 THESSALONIANS 3:7 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;”
For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you — Paul's example (hypodeigma) of industrious labor is the standard. 'Not idle' (ataktos) means he worked; the apostle's conduct is the lived commentary on his commands.
Church Fathers on 2 Thessalonians 3:7
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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