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2Th 3:10. Ὅτε, when) They had already seen the necessity of this commandment among the Thessalonians.-ἔι τις οὐ θέλει, if any will not) To be unwilling is a fault.-μηδὲ ἐσθιέτω, let him not eat) An Enthymeme.[25] Supply, But every man eats: therefore let every man labour. Paul does not mean, that such a man should have his food immediately withdrawn from him by others; but he proves from the necessity of eating the necessity of labouring, by throwing out this pleasantry, let such a one show himself as an angel.[26] There is a similar Enthymeme at 1Co 11:6.[27]
[25] This is the oratorical Enthymeme, wherein the argument is confirmed from its contrary. The logical Enthymeme is a covert syllogism.-ED.
[26] i.e. Let him do without food, as the angels do.-ED.
[27] “If the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn” (But she is not shorn; therefore let her be covered).-ED.