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Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
Now we command you, brethren. The apostle now turns to an important subject (2 Thessalonians 3:6–12): the proper method of tre…
Now we command you (παραγγελλομεν δε υμιν). Paul puts into practice the confidence expressed on their obedience to his commands in…
19th Century
Anglican
We command you — This is the practical conclusion of the letter. These words refer back to the expression in [Reference 2 Thessalo…
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Baptist
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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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.…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the author instructed them about what will happen in the last days. Here, he instructs them about certain things they particu…
