1 Corinthians 9:11 (WEB)
If we sowed to you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your fleshly things?
Fathers and councils · 12
John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXI.1Conference XXI
“…to make some recompense in return for their offerings, he began, as the Apostle says, to sow spiritual things to them whose carnal gifts he was reaping.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. ix. 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“What is, “in the matter of giving and receiving,” but that which he hath openly set forth in another place.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 11.
Read the whole comment“This the Apostle said, a preacher so laborious, so indefatigable, so well tried, that he giveth this very grass to the earth.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 11.
Read the whole comment“Nevertheless we have not used this power.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 11, 12.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle Paul, then, did “lay out more,” in that he, as himself witnesseth, did at his own charges go a warfare.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 7–15; and 2 Cor. xi. 7
Read the whole comment“This is like that which he says to the Corinthians: “If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 11
Read the whole comment“And, at the least, touching those sayings above recited, “Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?” and, “We have not used this power;” and, “When we might be burdensome to you, as Apostles of Christ,” and, “Night and day working that we might not burden any of you;” and, “The Lord hath…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 6–12
Read the whole comment“For they are a payment, not a gift, as the Apostle says, “If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 11.
Read the whole comment“Hence that same illustrious soldier had said a little before, in reference to this matter, “Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 11–15, 7.
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Jerome
“She sowed carnal things that she might reap spiritual things; she gave earthly things that she might receive heavenly things; she forewent things temporal that she might in their stead obtain things eternal.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. ix. 11.
Read the whole comment“If apostles who had the right to live of the Gospel laboured with their own hands that they might be chargeable to no man, and bestowed relief upon others whose carnal things they had a claim to reap as having sown unto them spiritual things; why do you not provide a supply to meet your needs?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 11.
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Tertullian
“They had a “licence,” too, to “live by the Gospel.”” — editor's note: See vers. 4, 9–18.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 7.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.