2 Thessalonians 3:7

7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

Ver. 7. For yourselves know ] You idle addleheads, a 2 Thessalonians 3:11 . For these he here directs his speech, that by doing nothing, had learned at length to do naughtily. Nihil agendo male agere discimus.

We behaved not ourselves disorderly ] Gr. ητακτησαμεν , We brake not our ranks, as unruly soldiers.

a Applied contemptuously to one whose intellect seems muddled. ŒD