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What "Disorderly" Means
Commentators explain that while the immediate issue was idleness, "walking disorderly" refers to a lifestyle that contradicts Christian teaching. It describes someone who is unproductive, lives for themselves, and often becomes a meddlesome gossip or troublemaker. Scholars note the term comes from military language for a soldier breaking rank, disrupting the order and witness of the church.
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2 Thessalonians
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Thessalonians 3:6
18th Century
Theologian
Now we command you, brethren. The apostle now turns to an important subject (2 Thessalonians 3:6–12): the proper method of tre…
AT Robertson
On 2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now we command you (παραγγελλομεν δε υμιν). Paul puts into practice the confidence expressed on their obedience to his commands in…
Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Thessalonians 3:6
19th Century
Preacher
Paul had been to Thessalonica and had given oral teaching, and now he commits to writing what he had spoken; but he instructs them to take care not…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Thessalonians 3:6
Now Paul comes to his command regarding the idle. That he invokes “the name of the Lord Jesus Christ” shows the urgency of the command. All those w…
John Calvin
On 2 Thessalonians 3:6
16th Century
Theologian
He now proceeds to correct a particular fault. Since there were some indolent, and at the same time meddlesome and prattling persons, who, to scrap…
John Gill
On 2 Thessalonians 3:6
17th Century
Pastor
Now we command you, brethren
The apostle is now come to the main thing itself he has in view in this part of the epi…
Matthew Henry
On 2 Thessalonians 3:6–15
17th Century
Minister
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.…