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“That you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.” (NKJV); ‹ καὶ φιλοτιμεῖσθαι ἡσυχάζειν καὶ πράσσειν τὰ ἴδια καὶ ἐργάζεσθαι ταῖς ἰδίαις χερσὶν ὑμῶν, καθὼς ὑμῖν παρηγγείλαμεν, ἵνα περιπατῆτε εὐσχημόνως πρὸς τοὺς ἔξω καὶ μηδενὸς χρείαν ἔχητε. › (GNTMT)

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The Force Beneath the Phrase

Words do more than state facts. Illocutionary force helps us ask what a speaker is doing through the words: warning, comforting, rebuking, inviting, or strengthening. Without context, we may preserve the sentence while missing the communication.

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