Matthew 10:10

Nor bag for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet a staff: for the workman is worthy of his food.
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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430
Serm., 46: The Gospel therefore is not for sale, that it should be preached forreward. For if they so sell it, they sell a great thing for a small price. Let preachers then receive their necessary support from the people, and from Godthe reward of their employment. For the people do not give pay to those that minister to them in the love of the Gospel, but as it were a stipend that may support them to enable them to work. De Cons. Evan., ii, 30: Otherwise; When the Lord said to the Apostles, “Possess not gold,” He added immediately, “The labourer is worthy of his hire,” to she why He would not have them possess and carry about these things; not that these things were not needed for the support of this life, but that He sent them in such a way as to show that these things were due to them from those to whom they preached the Gospel, as pay to soldiers. It is clear that this precept of the Lord does not at all imply that they ought not according to the Gospel tolive by any other means, than by the contributions of those to whom they preached; otherwise Paul transgressed this precept when he lived by the labour of his own hands. But He gave the Apostles authority that these things were dueto them from the house in which they abode. But when the Lord has issued acommand, if it be not performed, it is the sin of disobedience; when He bestowsa privilege, it is in any one’s power not to use it, and as it were to refrain from claiming his right. Thus also we must understand concerning the two coats, that none should think it necessary to carry another besides that which he wore, supposing that he should have need of it; for it would be in his power to obtain one by this authority which the Lord gave. Further that we readin Mark that they should be shod with sandals, seems to imply that this kind ofshoe has a mystic meaning in it, that the foot should neither be covered above, nor yet bare beneath, that is, that the Gospel should not be hid, nor yet rest itself on earthly advantage. Also when He forbids them to carry two coats, He warned them not to walk deceitfully, but in simplicity. So we cannot doubt that all these things were said by the Lord, partly in a direct, partly in a figurative sense; and that of the two Evangelists one inserted somethings, the other things, in his narrative. If any one should think that the Lord could not in one speech speak some things in a direct, and some things ina mystic sense, let him look at any other of His sayings, and he will see how hasty and unlearned his opinion is. When the Lord commands that the left hand should not know what the right hand doeth, does he think that almsgiving, and the rest of His precepts in that place are to be taken figuratively?
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Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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