{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-441","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":6,"verse_to":6},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: Paul means by this that he and Barnabas do have this right, but they do not want to exercise it.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: \"Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?\" Lo, he hath taken away all doubt even from the slowest hearts, that they may understand of what working he speaks. For to what end saith he, \"Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?\" but for that all evangelists and ministers of God's word had power received of the Lord, not to work with their hands, but to live by the Gospel, working only spiritual works in preaching of the kingdom of heaven and edifying of the peace of the Church? For no man can say that it is of that very spiritual working that the Apostle said, \"Or I only and Barnabas, have we not power to forbear working?\" For this power to forbear working all those had: let him say then, who essays to deprave and pervert precepts Apostolical; let him say, if he dares that all evangelists received of the Lord power to forbear preaching the Gospel. But if this is most absurd and mad to say, why will they not understand what is plain to all, that they did indeed receive power not to work, but works bodily, whereby to get a living, because \"the workman is worthy of his hire,\" as the Gospel speaks.<br/><i>— OF THE WORK OF MONKS 8</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"Or I only and Barnabas, have we not a right to forbear working?\"</p><p>See his humility of mind and his soul pure from envy, how he takes care not to conceal him whom he knew to be a partaker with himself in this perfection. For if the other things be common, how is not this common? Both they and we are apostles and are free, and have seen Christ, and have exhibited the works of Apostles. Therefore we likewise have a right both to live without working and to be supported by our disciples.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 21</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: For there is extant withal an Epistle to the Hebrews under the name of Barnabas-a man sufficiently accredited by God, as being one whom Paul has stationed next to himself in the uninterrupted observance of abstinence: \"Or else, I alone and Barnabas, have not we the power of working? \" And, of course, the Epistle of Barnabas is more generally received among the Churches than that apocryphal \"Shepherd\" of adulterers.<br/><i>— On Modesty</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"898768752bb2bf5eb0e1d11cd96c6cf31e8a6357b010f36a7e0dffa10f19ffeb","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":441,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"58f65ab79d48f728d87c375138202660d9884c6d7ae2deb60460ed0ceae4d006","translator":null,"work":null}