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
2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 Niv
Adam Clarke
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
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:13
Be not weary in well-doing - While ye stretch out no hand of relief to the indolent and lazy, do not forget the real poor - the genuine representatives of an impoverished Christ; and rather relieve a hundred undeserving objects, than pass by one who is a real object of charity. 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
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Thessalonians 3:6
That ye withdraw yourselves - Have no fellowship with those who will not submit to proper discipline; who do not keep their place; ατακτως , such as are out of their rank, and act according to their own wills and caprices; and particularly such as are idle and busybodies. These he had ordered, 1 Thessalonians 4:11 , 1 Thessalonians 4:12 , that they should study to be quiet, mind their own business, and work with their hands; but it appears that they had paid no attention to this order,... read more