Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Ver. 1. How ye ought to walk] Every good man is a great peripatetic, walks much. Christ also walks; so doth the devil, apostates, heretics, worldlings; but with this difference: Christ walketh in the middle, Revelation 1:13; Revelation 2:1; the devil to and fro, up and down, Job 1:7, his motion is circular, and therefore fraudulent, 1 Peter 5:8. Apostates run retrograde, they stumble at the cross, and fall backward, Heretics run out on the right hand, worldlings on the left, James 1:14. Hypocrites turn aside unto their crooked ways,Psalms 125:5. They follow Christ, as Samson did his parents, till he came by the carcase; or as a dog doth his master, till he meeteth with a carrion. The true Christian only walks so as to please God; his eyes look right on, his eyelids look straight before him, Proverbs 4:25. He goes not back, with Hezekiah's sun, nor stands at a stay, as Joshua's, but rejoiceth as a strong man to run his race, as David's sun, Psalms 19:5. Yea, he "shineth more and more unto the perfect day," as Solomon's, Proverbs 4:18 .