Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadHeinrich Meyer Commentary - 2 Thessalonians 3:8 - 3:8
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
2Th_3:8. See on 1Th_2:9.
δωρεάν ] by way of gift.
ἄρτον φαγεῖν ] to eat bread (Mar_3:20; Luk_14:1; ἄρτον ἐσθίειν , Mat_15:2), has as the Hebrew àÈëÇì ìÆäÆí (Gen_43:25; 2Sa_9:7; Pro_23:6, etc.) the idea of eating generally, so that it is not to be distinguished from the simple φαγεῖν (Mar_6:31) or ἐσθίειν (2Th_3:10). ἄρτον φαγεῖν παρά τινος denotes: to have maintenance from any one, without care on our part.
ἐργαζόμενοι ] is not to be taken in the sense of temp. finit. (Flatt and others), but ἐν κόπῳ … ἐργαζόμενοι is to be taken together, and forms a statement of mode attached to ἄρτον ἐφάγομεν in contrast to δωρεάν . Yet we may, with Winer, p. 314 [E. T. 442], de Wette, and Hofmann, assume that to ἐφάγομεν , as a contrast to δωρεάν , are added first ἐν κόπῳ καὶ μόχθῳ taking the place of an adverb, and then to this νύκτα καὶ ἡμέραν ἐργαζόμενοι as a parallel clause.