7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;



Ver. 7. For yourselves know] You idle addleheads, {a} 2Th_3:11. For these he here directs his speech, that by doing nothing, had learned at length to do naughtily. Nihil agendo male agere discimus.



We behaved not ourselves disorderly] Gr. çôáêôçóáìåí , We brake not our ranks, as unruly soldiers.



{a} Applied contemptuously to one whose intellect seems muddled. ŒD