That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Ver. 12. That ye be not slothful] A ready heart makes riddance of God's work. Shake off sloth. Spontaneae lassitudines morbos loquuntur, saith Hippocrates. Sure I am that dulness and luskishness argue a diseased soul.
But followers of them] It was a good law that the Ephesians made, that men should propound to themselves the best patterns, and ever bear in mind some eminent man, αιεν υπομιμνησκεοθαι τινος των τη αρετη χρωμενων ..