I wrote:
> http://images.vam.ac.uk/item/O159917/dish/?print=1
>
> This is an illustration of the Second Epistle of Paul to the
> Thessalonians 3.10: "[...] if any would not work, neither should
> he eat."
In a lighter vein, it occurs to me that in 1970 Adriano Celentano, one of the most popular Italian pop singers of all times, made a big hit with a song entitled "Chi Non Lavora Non Fa L'Amore":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzVJW0uxxI0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNvr-rRA684
The title of this song roughly means 'if any would not work, neither should he MAKE LOVE' (this was followed by a refrain meaning 'that's what my wife told me yesterday').
Looks like a modern, more 'hedonistic' reinterpretation of St. Paul's admonishment!
The text of this song sounded intolerable to the young public (those being the hottest years of Marxism-inspired youth protest), who stigmatized it as reactionary, kind of a hymn to strike-breaking...
Cheers,
Francesco