For we hear that there are some who walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
This indeed he says here; but there, in the first Epistle, he says, that you may walk honestly towards them that are without. On what account? Perhaps there was as yet no such thing. For upon another occasion also admonishing, he says, It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35 But the expression, walk honestly has no reference to disorder; wherefore he added, that you may have need of nothing. 1 Thessalonians 4:12 And here he sets down another necessity, for thus doing what was honorable and good towards all. (For as he proceeds, he says, be not weary in well doing.) For certainly he that is idle and yet able to work must needs be a busybody. But alms are given to those only who are not able to support themselves by the work of their own hands, or who teach, and are wholly occupied in the business of teaching. For you shall not muzzle the ox, he says, when he treads out the grain. Deuteronomy 25:4 And the laborer is worthy of his hire. 1 Timothy 5:18, and Luke 10:7 So that neither is he idle, but receives the reward of work and great work too. But to pray and fast, being idle, is not the work of the hands. For the work that he is here speaking of is the work of the hands. And that you may not suspect any such thing
