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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:7

We behaved not ourselves disorderly - Ουκ ητακτησαμεν· We did not go out of our rank - we kept our place, and discharged all its duties. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:8

Neither did we eat any man's bread for naught - We paid for what we bought, and worked with our hands that we might have money to buy what was necessary. Labour and travail night and day - We were incessantly employed, either in preaching the Gospel, visiting from house to house, or working at our calling. As it is very evident that the Church at Thessalonica was very pious, and most affectionately attached to the apostle, they must have been very poor, seeing he was obliged to work hard... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:9

Not because we have not power - We have the power, εξουσιαν , the right, to be maintained by those in whose behalf we labor. The laborer is worthy of his hire, is a maxim universally acknowledged and respected; and they who preach the Gospel should live by the Gospel: the apostle did not claim his privilege, but labored for his own support, that he might be an example to those whom he found otherwise disposed, and that he might spare the poor. See 1 Corinthians 9:1 , etc. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:10

If any would not work, neither should he eat - This is a just maxim, and universal nature inculcates it to man. If man will work, he may eat; if he do not work, he neither can eat, nor should he eat. The maxim is founded on these words of the Lord: In the sweat of thy brow thou shall eat bread. Industry is crowned with God's blessing; idleness is loaded with his curse. This maxim was a proverb among the Jews. Men who can work, and will rather support themselves by begging, should not get one... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:11

For we hear that there are some - It is very likely that St. Paul kept up some sort of correspondence with the Thessalonian Church; for he had heard every thing that concerned their state, and it was from this information that he wrote his second epistle. Disorderly - Ατακτως· Out of their rank - not keeping their own place. Working not at all - Either lounging at home, or becoming religious gossips; μηδεν εργαζομενους , doing nothing. Busybodies - Περιεργαζομενους· Doing... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:12

With quietness they work - Μετα ἡσυχιας· With silence; leaving their tale-bearing and officious intermeddling. Less noise and more work! That - they work, and eat their own bread - Their own bread, because earned by their own honest industry. What a degrading thing to live on the bounty or mercy of another, while a man is able to acquire his own livelihood! He who can submit to this has lost the spirit of independence; and has in him a beggar's heart, and is capable of nothing but... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:6

Verse 6 He now proceeds to the correcting of a particular fault. As there were some indolent, and at the same time curious and prattling persons, who, in order that they might scrape together a living at the expense of others, wandered about from house to house, he forbids that their indolence should be encouraged by indulgence, (700) and teaches that those live holily who procure for themselves the necessaries of life by honorable and useful labor. And in the first place, he applies the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:9

Verse 9 9Not because we have not. As Paul wished by his laboring to set an example, that idle persons might not like drones (707) eat the bread of others, so he was not willing that this very thing (708) should do injury to the ministers of the word, so that the Churches should defraud them of their proper livelihood. In this we may see his singular moderation and humanity, and how far removed he was from the ambition of those who abuse their powers, so as to infringe upon the rights of their... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:10

Verse 10 10He that will not labor. From its being written in Psalms 128:2 — Thou art blessed, eating of the labor of thy hands, also in Proverbs 10:4, The blessing of the Lord is upon the hands of him that laboreth, it is certain that indolence and idleness are accursed of God. Besides, we know that man was created with this view, that he might do something. Not only does Scripture testify this to us, but nature itself taught it to the heathen. Hence it is reasonable, that those, who wish... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:11

Verse 11 11We hear that there are some among you. It is probable that this kind of drones were, as it were, the seed of idle monkhood. For, from the very beginning, there were some who, under pretext of religion, either made free with the tables of others, or craftily drew to themselves the substance of the simple. They had also, even in the time of Augustine, come to prevail so much, that he was constrained to write a book expressly against idle monks, where he complains with good reason of... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:11

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:12

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:11

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