If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your material things?
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
Paul emphasizes the fact that his fellow apostles were not transgressing in any way when they did not engage in manual labor to provide the necessities of life, but, as the Lord directed, living on the gospel, they accepted, without offering payment, bodily nourishment from those to whom they in turn furnished spiritual nourishment without demanding payment.
