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BUT lest haply it might be thought that, while he worked in silence and
tried to teach them by example, he had not instructed them by precepts and
warnings, he proceeds to say: "For when we were with you, this we declared
to you, that if a man will not work neither should he eat." Still greater
does he make their idleness appear, for, though they knew that he, like a
good master, worked with his hands for the sake of his teaching and in
order to instruct them, yet they were ashamed to imitate him; and he
emphasizes our diligence and care by saying that he did not only give them
this for an example when present, but that he also proclaimed it
continually in words; saying that if any one would not work, neither should
he eat.
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