If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Si nous avons semé parmi vous les biens spirituels, est-ce une grosse affaire si nous moissonnons vos biens temporels.
KJV
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, [is it] a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
by carnal things are due to those who sow spiritual things, according to the saying of the Apostle ( 1 Cor. 9:11 ), "If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?" [thus implying that on the contrary "it is no great matter if we re…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
s due to a person through his affording others something whether temporal or spiritual, according to 1 Cor. 9:11, "If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we reap your carnal things?" And in this sense religious may live on alms as being due to them in…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 93 (Migne)
perte exposuit dicens: Si nos vobis spiritalia seminavimus, magnum est ut carnalia vestra metamus (I Cor. IX, 11) ? Hoc significat non alligabis os bovi trituranti. Unde et idem Apostolus alio loco dicit: Dignus operarius est mercede sua (I Tim. V, 18) . Vult ergo Scriptura doc…
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