2 Thessalonians 3:8 (WEB)
neither did we eat bread from anyone’s hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you.
Catechism · 1
“He is not inviting us to idleness,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 2 Thess 3:6-13.
Fathers and councils · 14
Gregory of Nyssa
“…and afterwards did not hoard even what remained to him, so that he too might have made the Apostles’ boast, ‘Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought;’ or, on the other hand, the man who has made the championship of a tenet a source of income, the man who creeps into houses, and does not conceal his…” — editor's note: 2 Thess. iii. 8.
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Luke
“…Lord, yet I give my judgment; (1 Cor. 7:15.) or, in working even with his own hands, that he might not trouble any of the weak in the newness of the Gospel, (2 Thess. 3:8) though it was lawful for him to be fed from the Gospel.” — the author cites it
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.5Conference XXIII
“…and to the needs of those who were with me,” or when in writing in the Thessalonians he testifies that he “worked in labour and weariness night and day.”” — editor's note: Acts xx. 34; 2 Thess. iii. 8.
Read the whole comment “And: “If any will not work neither let him eat.”” — editor's note: Acts xx. 34; 2 Thess. iii. 8, 10.
Read the whole comment““But in labour,” he says “and weariness, working night and day lest we should be burdensome to any of you.”” — editor's note: 2 Thess. iii. 8.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“…he said, “Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought, but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you.”” — editor's note: 2 Thess. iii. 8.
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Augustine of Hippo
“The Apostle spent more; for, though it was allowed unto all the Apostles to receive, as Christ’s soldiers, pay from Christ’s subjects, that Apostle, nevertheless, toiled with his own hands, and excused the subjects the maintenance owing to him.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 7, 9; 2 Thess. iii. 8, 9.
Read the whole comment“Now them that are such we charge and beseech in our Lord Jesus Christ, that with silence they work, and eat their own bread.”” — editor's note: 2 Thess. iii. 6–12
Read the whole comment“…travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you: not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an example unto you to follow us.” — editor's note: 2 Thess. iii. 8, 9
Read the whole comment“Though, truly, that he wrought at hours of both day and night himself hath not left untold.” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 9; 2 Thess. iii. 8
Read the whole comment“…have not used this power;” and, “When we might be burdensome to you, as Apostles of Christ,” and, “Night and day working that we might not burden any of you;” and, “The Lord hath ordained for them which preach the Gospel, of the Gospel to live; but I have used none of these things:” and the rest of this kind, let…” — editor's note: 2 Thess. iii. 8
Read the whole comment“And in what he often says of himself, that he wrought with his hands that he might not be burdensome; and in what is written of him, that he joined himself to Aquila on account of the similarity of their occupation, in order that they might work together at…” — editor's note: 1 Thess. ii. 9; 2 Thess. iii. 8.
Read the whole comment“…followed Christ, seeing that, in order not to become a burden to any of those to whom he preached the gospel, he worked with his own hands for his support: wherein we find rather the fulfillment of his own words, “I labored more abundantly than they all;” and to which he added, “yet not I, but the grace of God…” — editor's note: 2 Thess. iii. 8.
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Tertullian
“Again, they say the same apostle has left a precept, according to his own example, “That each one work with his own hands for a living.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. iv. 11; 2 Thess. iii. 6–12.
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Cross-references · 32
Cited together with
Cited together in Epistles Letter 5.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.9.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.5.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.5.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.9.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.5.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 5.
Cited together in Against Eunomius I.9.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 5.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 5.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 5.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 5.
Cited together in The Institutes I.5 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIII.5.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 10:29–37 (15) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 4 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 9 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Luke 10:29–37 (15) (Catena Aurea) and 2 other places.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 5.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 15.
Parallel passages
1 Thessalonians 2:9 and 2 Thessalonians 3:8 share the same wording (11 words).