He who does not work, neither shall he eat
aphorism found in 2 Thess 3:10
He who does not work, neither shall he eat is a rule given by Paul of Tarsus in the New Testament.
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- καὶ γὰρ ὅτε ἦμεν πρὸς ὑμᾶς, τοῦτο παρηγγέλλομεν ὑμῖν, ὅτι εἴ τις οὐ θέλει ἐργάζεσθαι, μηδὲ ἐσθιέτω.
- When we were with you, we gave you this rule: "The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat."
- Paul of Tarsus, 2 Thessalonians 3:10
- In a country where the sole employer is the state, [opposition] means death by slow starvation. The old principle: 'who does not work shall not eat,' has been replaced with a new one: 'who does not obey shall not eat.'
- Leon Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed (1936), Chapter 11
- Paul's ... no-work-no-eat doctrine was directed by him only against the poor. All around him were the rich, virginally innocent of toil, and yet who were gorged to the gullet.
- Bouck White, The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 238
