Not as an enemy (μη ως εχθρον). This is always the problem in such ostracism as discipline, however necessary it is at times. Few …

Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother (2 Thessalonians 3:15). This shows the true spirit in which disci…

Yet—The original is simply And, which is much more beautiful, implying that this very withdrawal from brotherly fellowshi…

This kind of Christian discipline ought to be carried out still, in reference not only to this one case of busybodies, but to all other cases. When…

Paul now describes specifically how the Thessalonian Christians should deal with loafers who disobey his instructions. First, they are urged to kee…

Regard him not as an enemy. He immediately adds a softening of this rigor, for, as he elsewhere commands, we must take care that the offen…

Yet count him not as an enemy As an enemy of Christ, and the Christian religion, as the Jews and Pagans were; or as an en…

Those who have received the gospel are to live according to the gospel. Those who could work, and would not, were not to be maintained in idleness.…

1. Previously, the Apostle showed by his own example what he taught them: that they should not be burdensome but should work. Here, he shows…