6. “In the name,” &c., i.e., by the authority, “of our Lord,” &c. The Apostle instructed the superiors of the Church at Thessalonica to correct the disorderly, who neglecting all the rules of Christian propriety, were following their own whims and humours. He now, on finding that the practices he then prohibited were persevered in, and that some of the able-bodied went about begging, indulging in an undue spirit of curiosity, prying into the affairs of others, and neglecting their own, calls upon
2 Thessalonians 3:6–15