11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.



Ver. 11. Working not at all] But making religion a mask for idleness; whose whole life is to eat, and drink, and sleep, and sport, and sit, and talk and laugh themselves fat. These are an odious sort of Christians; a kind of vagrant people that, having little to do, are set to work by the devil; for idleness is the hour of temptation. Standing pools are full of vermin. Behemoth lieth in the fens, Job_40:21.



But are busybodles] Nihil agentes, sed curiose satagentes: Not working at home, but over working abroad, though to no purpose or profit.