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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Since he expressed himself more strictly, having said: "we exhort," he again turns to them with greater condescension and says: "we entreat." But through this exhortation it becomes even more weighty and strict. He demands two things from them: as from the disorderly — that they be quiet, and as from the idle — that they work, eating their own bread and not another's. For they ought not to turn their eyes toward the hands of others.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then he applies a remedy, when he says "now we charge." And first, on the side of those who are sinning; second, on the side of the others, at "but you, brethren." He says, therefore, "now we" severely "charge those who are such," speaking as a prelate, "and beseech them" lovingly, as their father, that "they would eat their own bread," not another's bread but what is due them, namely what has been lawfully acquired, "with silence," i.e., without being troublesome, without running about. …
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