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Matt . x . 10 , — Ci the workman is worthy of his meat , ** s Luke x . 7 , — "the labourer is worthy of his Lire /' 1 Tim . v . 18 , 6 < For the scripture saitb , Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn : and , The labourer is worthy of his reward / 9 It has been concluded from the manner in which this quotation is made by Paul , and from the occurrence of the words in Matthew and Luke , that the gospels of those evangelists were extant when the Apostle wrote to his beloved convert . However , there is no
decisive proof of the sentence being introduced as a citation from any sacred books ; and the probability is that it formed one of those current maxims of the age and country of which the writers of the New Testament sometimes availed
themselves , Lardner has taken no notice of this text in that sec * . fcion * of his Supplement ^ &c . where his object is to shew that the Gospels are not mentioned ^ 7 ior refer * red to , in the Epistles , c \ c %
Matt . x . 8 , —* Freely ye have received , freely give . ' It was highly proper , says Mr . Cappe , when commenting on this verse , f that the apostles should shew their disinterestedness , in opposition to the Jewish teachers , who " devoured widowshouses . "
The remark is just , considered ' in itself , but can scarcely be admitted as an explanation of the precept of our Lord ' s now before us . We have already seen that he pronounces . " the workman worthy
of his meat : " and it appears to have been his design that his
• Works , vol . vi . 3 i > &C . f Life of Christ , J 7 « . .
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twelve disciples should accept , as some return for their labours , the hospitality and good offices of their friends . The words must therefore be read with a single reference of them to the preceding clauses : " Heal the sick , cleanse the lepers ,
raise the dead , cast out daemons ; freely ye have received , freely give . 5 '—q . d . Miraculous powers have been largely and without grudging bestowed on you ; and hence you come under an obligation to employ them liberally and unreluctantly in the relief of human misery .
Matt . x . 34 . " Think not that I am come to ' send peace on earth ; I came not to send peace , but a sword , " ¦ ¦ Mr . Gibbon * has thought fit to style this ** an ambiguous text : " there will be no difficulty in vindicating it from the charge .
The two clauses of the verse ought to be compared with each other : the declaration in the former is simply , 44 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth ;" and this is explained by the remaining sentences " I came not to
send peace but a sword /* War is undoubtedly one of those states of things which are exactly the reverse of peace ; still , it is not the only one . Peace is public or private , national or domestic : and
the opposite of private tranquillity , is division . In scriptural phraseology , moreover , a sword is spoken of as an emblem and instrument * sometimes of division ( 1
Kings , iii . 24 , 2 Sain . xii . 10 , Luke ii . 35 ) , sometimes of civil justice ( Acts xii . 2 . Rom . xiii . 4 ) . And that is said to be
de-* Hwt . of Dcd . &c . ( syo . ) vo ^ ix , 295 .
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Additional Contributions to Scriptural Criticisn * . 457
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 457, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/33/
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