2 Thessalonians 3:12

Now them that are such,.... For this was not the case and character of them all. Did such practices generally obtain, no community, civil or religious, could subsist. And the apostle wisely…

Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus ... - A more solemn command and appeal to do what he had before enjoined on all of them; 1Th 4:11; see the notes on that verse.

With quietness they work - Μετα ἡσυχιας· With silence; leaving their tale-bearing and officious intermeddling. Less noise and more work!

That - they work, and eat their own bread - Their own bread,…

The apostle having commended their obedience for the time past, and mentioned his confidence in their obedience for the time to come, proceeds to give them commands and directions to some who were…

Nowthem that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ The "exhort" of the first Epistle (1Th 4:10) is now charge and exhort, put with a new tone of sternness.

Not bybut in the Lord…