and to provide [future] rest for you, along with us, who are afflicted. [This will occur] when Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire [i.e., at His second coming], accompanied by His mighty angels.

we request that you people do not become shaken up in your mind, nor alarmed, either by a spirit [i.e., by some prophetic prediction], or by a report, or by a letter supposedly from us, that the day of the Lord [i.e., when Jesus returns] has already come.

Do you not remember that I used to tell you these things when I was still with you?

For you, yourselves, know how you ought to follow our example, for we did not live in idleness when we were among you;

For even when we were with you, we gave you this order: If any person does not [want to] work, he should not [get to] eat.