For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you,
...signifies to be out of rank, out of one’s place, undisciplined, to behave disorderly: in the military sense, to break rank; negatively in 2 Thessalonians 3:7, of the example set by the Apostle and his fellow-missionaries, in working for their bread while they were at Thessalonica so as not to burden the saints (320).