Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
"The root trouble apparently was their excitability. The thought of the nearness of the Parousia had thrown them into a flutter, and this had led to unwelcome consequences of which their idleness was the outstanding feature." [Note: Morris, The First . . ., p. 256.] 