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For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: “If anyone is not willing to work, don’t let him eat.”
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Verse 10. Not work. By prying with curiosity into other men’s actions. He that is idle, saith Saint John Chrysostom will be given to curiosity. Witham.—The apostles, like our Lord, were fond of introducing popular saying or axioms. Another, and not unlike the former, is found in one of the Jewish rabbies, Zeror:
Qui non laboraverit in Prosabbato, nè edat in Sabbato.
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