Luke 10:7

And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the laborer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
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Cornelius a Lapide

AD 1637
For the labourer is worthy of his hire. By hire we must understand not money or its equivalent, but food and nourishment. For the preaching of the kingdom of heaven is above price. Hence S. Augustine says on Ps ciii.: What do they receive? They bestow spiritual gifts, they receive carnal; they give gold, they receive that which is worthless. Therefore it is clear that the apostles should live by the gospel, and that their hearers were bound by every law, natural and divine, to support them. They were forbidden then to carry either purse or scrip, because God put it into the hearts of those that attended on their teaching to provide for all their wants. For S. Gregory says (Hom17), He who forbids us to carry scrip or purse, ordains that we should live of the gospel. Because it is fitting that we should receive earthly things from those to whom we offer heavenly rewards. And again, Christ shows why He bade His disciples carry neither scrip nor purse, not because these things are unneeded...

Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220
; they compare Christ with, instead of sundering Him from, the Creator. "The labourer is worthy of his hire."

The Apostolic Constitutions

AD 375
Let him not make use of the Lord's goods as another's, but moderately; "for the labourer is worthy of his reward."

The Didache

AD 100
2. So also a true teacher is himself worthy, as the workman, of his support.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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