not to let your minds get easily unsettled or excited by any spirit of prophecy or any declaration or any letter purporting to come from me, to the effect that the Day of the Lord is already here.

Let nobody delude you into this belief, whatever he may say. It will not come till the Rebellion takes place first of all, with the revealing of the Lawless One, the doomed One,

Do you not remember I used to tell you this when I was with you?

and that we may be delivered from perverse and evil men ??for the faith is not held by all.

For you know quite well how to copy us; we did not loaf in your midst,

we did not take free meals from anyone; no, toiling hard at our trade, we worked night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you.

Not that we have no right to such support; it was simply to give you a pattern to copy.

We used to charge you even when we were with you, 'If a man will not work, he shall not eat.'

Only, if anyone will not obey our orders in this letter, mark that man, do not associate with him ??that will make him feel ashamed!

You are not to treat him as an enemy, but to put him under discipline, as a brother.