 | Maurice Wiles, Mark Santer - 1975 - 282 pages
...written', he says, ' "You shall not muzzle a threshing ox." ' He then explains this precept by continuing, 'Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not...our sake? It was written for our sake, because the ploughman should plough in hope and the thresher should thresh in hope of a share in the crop' [1 Cor.... | |
 | Origen - 1979 - 324 pages
...(1 Cor. 9:9; Deut. 25:4). He goes on to explain how this commandment should be understood and says, "Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does He not...our sake? It was written for our sake, because the ploughman should plow in hope and the thresher thresh in hope of a share in the crop" (1 Cor. 9:9-10).... | |
 | Johan Christiaan Beker - 484 pages
...it is written in the law of Moses, 'You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.' Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not speak entirely for our sake? It was written^or our sake . . ." (1 Cor. 9:8-10); "For whatever was written in former days was written for... | |
 | Peter F. Ellis - 1982 - 302 pages
...it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? '"Does he not...the thresher thresh in hope of a share in the crop. "If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap your material benefits? 12If others... | |
 | Fred O. Francis, J. Paul Sampley - 1984 - 420 pages
...it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? '"Does he not...the thresher thresh in hope of a share in the crop. " If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap your material benefits? I2lf... | |
 | Tom Regan - 1986 - 292 pages
..."It is written in the law of Moses, 'You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.' Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not speak entirely for our sake?" (1 Corinthians 9.9- 10). Having posed these rhetorical questions, Paul proceeds on the assumption that... | |
 | Elizabeth Mensch, Alan Freeman - 1993 - 286 pages
...righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love, and in mercy." (Hosea 2:18-19). 53 "Is it for the oxen that God is concerned? Does he not speak entirely for our sake?" I Corinthians 9:9-10. Later, he explains that the passage is really about the right of preachers, like... | |
 | Vernon Kay Robbins - 1996 - 302 pages
...of Deuteronomy 25.4 in 9.8-10: 'Do I say this on human authority? Does not the law say the same? ... Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not speak entirely for our sake?' The 'law' to which the discourse refers is not Roman law, Greek law, or Egyptian law - it is Jewish... | |
 | James L. Kugel - 1998 - 1092 pages
...it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does He not speak entirely for our sake? ... If we have sown spiritual good among you, is it too much if we reap your material benefits? —... | |
 | Andrew Linzey, Dorothy Yamamoto - 1998 - 322 pages
...is the almost flippant way that St Paul disposes of the literal meaning of that Deuteronomic text: 'Is it for oxen that God is concerned? Does he not speak entirely for our sake?' How firmly this plainly erroneous Pauline interpretation took hold in early Christianity is made clear... | |
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For it is written in the law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain." Is it for oxen that God is concerned? '"Does he not speak entirely for our sake? 
