Neither did we eat any man's bread for nothing; but worked with labor and travail night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you:
All Commentaries on 2 Thessalonians 3:8 Go To 2 Thessalonians 3
Basil the Great
AD 379
In this way we acquie a ecollected spiit—when in evey action we beg fom God the success of ou labos and satisfy ou debt of gatitude to him who gave us the powe to do the wok, and when, as has been said, we keep befoe ou minds the aim of pleasing him. If this is not the case, how can thee be consistency in the wods of the apostle bidding us to “pay without ceasing,” with those othe wods: “we woked night and day”? Thanksgiving at all times has been commanded even fom law and has been poved necessay to ou life fom both eason and natue. So we should not theefoe be negligent in obseving those times fo paye customaily established in communities—times which have inevitably been selected because each peiod contains a eminde peculia to itself of blessings eceived fom God. The Long Rules, q...
