{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110498.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110498.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110498.htm","text":"Of his saying: \u201cWe have heard that some among you walk disorderly.\u201d\nThen after all this rigour of gospel severity, he now lays bare the reason why he put forward all these matters. \u201cFor we have heard that some among you walk disorderly, working not at all, but curiously meddling.\u201d He is nowhere satisfied to speak of those who will not give themselves up to work, as if they were victims of but a single malady. For in his first Epistle 977 he speaks of them as \u201cdisorderly,\u201d and not walking according to the traditions which they had received from him: and he also asserts that they were restless, and ate their bread for nought. Again he says here, \u201cWe have heard that there are some among you who walk disorderly.\u201d And at once he subjoins a second weakness, which is the root of this restlessness, and says, \u201cworking not at all;\u201d a third malady as well he adds, which springs from this last like some shoot: \u201cbut curiously meddling.\u201d\nA mistake on Cassian\u2019s part: the reference being to 2 Thess. iii. 6.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XIII. Of his saying: \u201cWe have heard that some among you walk disorderly.\u201d","type":"page"}