{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-446","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":9,"chapter_to":9,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":11,"verse_to":11},"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>Augustine of Hippo</b>: By these words the Apostle Paul sufficiently indicates, that it was no usurping unto themselves of aught beyond their due on the part of his fellow-Apostles, that they wrought not bodily, whence they might have the things which to this life are necessary, but as the Lord ordained, should, living by the Gospel, eat bread gratuitously given of them unto whom they were preaching a gratuitous grace. Their charges, namely, they did like soldiers receive, and of the fruit of the vineyard by them planted, they did, as need was, freely gather; and of the milk of the flock which they fed, they drank; and of the threshing-floor on which they threshed, they took their meat. But he speaks more openly in the rest which he subjoins, and altogether removes all causes of doubting. \"If we unto you,\" saith he, \"have sown spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?\" What are the spiritual things which he sowed, but the word and mystery of the sacrament of the kingdom of heaven? And what the carnal things which he saith he had a right to reap, but these temporal things which are indulged to the life and indigency of the flesh? These however being due to him he declares that he had not sought nor accepted, lest he should cause any impediment to the Gospel of Christ.<br/><i>— OF THE WORK OF MONKS 8-9</i></p><p><b>Gregory the Dialogist</b>: Behold, however, he who forbade carrying a purse and bag grants expenses and food from that same preaching. For it is added: \"And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as are with them. For the laborer is worthy of his hire.\" If our peace is received, it is fitting that we remain in the same house eating and drinking such things as are with them, so that we may obtain earthly provisions from those to whom we offer the rewards of the heavenly homeland. Hence Paul also, receiving these very things as of little account, says: \"If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?\" And it should be noted what is added: \"The laborer is worthy of his hire,\" because the very food for sustenance is already part of the wages of the work, so that here the reward from the labor of preaching may begin, which is perfected there in the vision of truth. In this matter it should be considered that two rewards are owed to our one work: one on the way, the other in the homeland; one which sustains us in labor, another which recompenses us in the resurrection. Therefore the reward which is received in the present ought to accomplish this in us: that we may strive more vigorously toward the subsequent reward. Therefore every preacher should not preach in order to receive a reward in this time, but should receive a reward in order to continue preaching. For whoever preaches in order to receive here a reward of either praise or gift, without doubt deprives himself of the eternal reward. But whoever desires that what he says please men so that, while what is said pleases, through those same words not he himself but the Lord may be loved, or who therefore obtains earthly provisions in preaching lest he be wearied from the voice of preaching through want—for this one without doubt nothing stands in the way of receiving the reward in the homeland, because he took expenses on the way.<br/><i>— Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 17</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?\"</p><p>Lo, he adds also a fourth argument for the duty of yielding support. For since he had said, \"What soldier ever serveth at his own charges?\" and, \"who planteth a vineyard?\" and, \"who feedeth a flock?\" and introduced the ox that treadeth the corn; he points out likewise another most reasonable cause on account of which they might justly receive; viz. having bestowed much greater gifts, no more as having labored only. What is it then? \"if we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things?\" Seest thou a most just allegation and fuller of reason than all the former? for \"in those instances,\" says he, \"carnal is the seed, carnal also is the fruit; but here not so, but the seed is spiritual, the return carnal.\" Thus, to prevent high thoughts in those who contribute to their teachers, he signified that they receive more than they give. As if he had said, \"Husbandmen, whatsoever they sow, this also do they receive; but we, sowing in your souls spiritual things, do reap carnal.\" For such is the kind of support given by them.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 21</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"b69b067546136b96b61a2055cccbcfc658f2855697978f99a087f9fcfe0d25d1","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":446,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"178025b3be0001e3a4a4ea5d548e733825a29b22ea0cfc26267b3787b68872a4","translator":null,"work":null}