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1 Corinzi 9:4

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1 Corinzi 9:4 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 9:4

Have we not power to eat and to drink?
] Having proved his apostleship, he proceeds to establish his right to a maintenance as a Gospel minister; which he expresses by various phrases, and confirms by divers arguments: by a "power to eat and drink", he does not mean the common power and right of mankind to perform such actions, which everyone has, provided he acts temperately, and to the glory of God; nor a liberty of eating and drinking things indifferent, or which were prohibited under the ceremonial law; but a comfortable livelihood at the public charge, or at the expense of the persons to whom he ministered; and he seems to have in view the words of Christ, ( Luke 10:7 Luke 10:8 ) .

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1 Corinzi 9:4 In-Context

2 Se io non sono apostolo agli altri, pur lo sono a voi; poichè voi siete il suggello del mio apostolato nel Signore.
3 Quest’è quel ch’io dico a mia difesa a coloro che mi accusano.
4 Non abbiamo noi podestĂ  di mangiare e di bere?
5 Non abbiamo noi podestĂ  di menare attorno una donna sorella, come ancora gli altri apostoli, e i fratelli del Signore, e Cefa?
6 Ovvero, io solo, e Barnaba, non abbiam noi podestĂ  di non lavorare?
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