<p>3:12 <i>Now those that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread</i>- He has already warned them about such behaviour (1 Thess. 5:14), and now makes yet another appeal to them before having to advocate the discipline of :14. We should live &ldquo;quietly&rdquo;, and we are exhorted to do this &ldquo;by our Lord Jesus&rdquo; (2 Thess. 3:12). Our imagination of who He was and how He would have lived must be our pattern. We are in this sense in the grip of a personality cult based upon Him. Thus His patience is to be ours (see on :5). &quot;Quietness&quot; literally means &quot;silence&quot;; a strange thing to say if the only problem was laziness. I have suggested throughout this section that there is more to these lazy folk than may meet the eye, and that in fact the reference is to Judaizing false teachers who refused to work but demanded payment for their false teaching. Here then we would have a command that they should be silenced, they should not teach and not demand payment for it, but should instead work for their own bread. See on :10.</p>