1Cor 9:14-15 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 14. Even so hath the Lord ordained ] This is evidently a reference to our Lord's ordination, : The workman is worthy of his meat . And : For the labourer is worthy of his hire . And in both places it is the preacher of the Gospel of whom he is speaking. It was a maxim among the Jews, "that the inhabitants of a town where a wise man had made his abode should support him, because he had forsaken the world and its pleasures to study those things by which he might please God and be useful to men." See an ordinance to this effect in the tract Shabbath , fol. 114.

‏ 1 Corinthians 9:14-15

Verse 14. Even so hath the Lord ordained] This is evidently a reference to our Lord's ordination, Mt 10:10: The workman is worthy of his meat. And Lu 10:7: For the labourer is worthy of his hire. And in both places it is the preacher of the Gospel of whom he is speaking. It was a maxim among the Jews, "that the inhabitants of a town where a wise man had made his abode should support him, because he had forsaken the world and its pleasures to study those things by which he might please God and be useful to men." See an ordinance to this effect in the tract Shabbath, fol. 114.

Verse 15. Neither have I written, &c.] Though I might plead the authority of God in the law, of Christ in the Gospel, the common consent of our own doctors, and the usages of civil society, yet I have not availed myself of my privileges; nor do I now write with the intention to lay in my claims.