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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"For yourselves know how ye ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand." And yet even if they had eaten, it would not have been for nought. "For the laborer," he says, "is worthy of his hire." (Luke x. 7.) "But in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says "for you yourselves," he explains the last thing he said, namely "according to the tradition," showing what this tradition is and how they received it. Now the tradition is that they were not idle or curious. And first, he shows how they received it by example; second, how they received it by word. And first, he shows that he avoided troublesomeness; second, how he did so; third, he gives the reason. …
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