and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we charged you;
Fanatics are doomed to frustration and defeat.  Striving for religious excitement requires that something new and different be encountered constantly; and this inevitably leads the seeker into error.  Busybodies are carriers of gossip, disturbers of the peace, troublemakers and thorns in the body of the believers wherever they appear.  Loafers are especially detestable.  While doing little or nothing on their own behalf, they require attention, goods and services of others that might be far better employed than in the maintenance of idlers and spongers off others.