1 Corinthians 9:15 (WEB)
But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.
Fathers and councils · 13
Augustine of Hippo
“There has been such a soldier as gave up his rations of food even to the paymaster: yet let the paymaster pay the rations.…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 7, 15.
Read the whole comment“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“And he goes on, and adjoins, lest perchance any should imagine that he only therefore received not, because they had not given: “But I have not written these things that they may be so done unto me: good is it for me rather to die than that any make void my glory.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 15
Read the whole comment“…we might not burden any of you;” and, “The Lord hath ordained for them which preach the Gospel, of the Gospel to live; but I have used none of these things:” and the rest of this kind, let them either expound otherwise, or if by most clear shining light of truth they be put to it, let them understand and obey; or if…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 14, 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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John Chrysostom
“And again hear him saying, “It were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.” ( 1 Cor. ix. 15.)” — the author cites it
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Luke
“(1 Cor. 9:15.)” — the author cites it
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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“With what kind of superciliousness, on the contrary, was he compelled to declare, “But to me it is of small moment that I be interrogated by you, or by a human court-day; for neither am I conscious to myself (of any guilt);” and, “My glory none shall make empty.”” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. ix. 15.
Read the whole comment“Of this he boasted, and suffered no man to rob him of such glory—certainly with no view of destroying the law, which he proved that another man might use.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ix. 15.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 7.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.16.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 22.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount II.16.
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 8:1–3 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 8:1–3 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Luke 8:1–3 (Catena Aurea).
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 On the Sermon on the Mount II.16.