1 Corinthians 9:13 (WEB)
Don’t you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?
Fathers and councils · 11
Jerome
“…another there is a great difference (I am not speaking of bad and good, but of the good themselves who stand on the right hand)? then listen to the sequel:“Know ye not that they which minister about the sacrifices, eat of the sacrifices, and they which wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 13 sq.
Read the whole comment“They live of the altar: I, if I bring no gift to it, have the axe laid to my root as to that of a barren tree.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“I, if I am the portion of the Lord, and the line of His heritage, receive no portion among the remaining tribes; but, like the Priest and the Levite, I live on the tithe, and serving the altar, am supported by its offerings.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 13.
Read the whole comment“Again “they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 13.
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Augustine of Hippo
“But I have used none of these things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 13–15.
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“But I have used none of these things.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 13–15
Read the whole comment““For if I do this thing willingly,” says he, “I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me;” if, constrained by the want of those things which are necessary for temporal life, I preach the gospel, others will have through me the reward of the gospel,…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 13–17.
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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Tertullian
“They had a “licence,” too, to “live by the Gospel.”” — editor's note: See vers. 4, 9–18.
Read the whole comment“When he teaches that every man ought to live of his own industry, he begins with a copious induction of examples—of soldiers, and shepherds, and husbandmen.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 13.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.16.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.16.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.16.