For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Si je le fais de bon coeur, j'en ai la récompense; mais si je le fais malgré moi, c'est une charge qui m'est confiée.
KJV
For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation [of the gospel] is committed unto me.
Pseudo-Justinus Martyr
Epistula ad Diognetum
αὐτοῖς παρεδόθη, οὐδὲ θνητὴν ἐπίνοιαν φυλάσσειν οὕτως ἀξιοῦσιν ἐπιμελῶς, οὐδὲ ἀνθρωπίνων οἰκονομίαν I Cor. 9, 17 μυστηρίων πεπίστευνται. ἀλλ̓ αὐτὸς ἀληθῶς ὁ παντοκράτωρ καὶ παντοκτίστης καὶ ἀόρατος θεός, αὐτὸς ἀπ̓ οὐρανῶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ τὸν λόγον τὸν ἅγιον καὶ ἀπερινόητον ἀνθρώ…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
al laws. Neither, therefore, can he dispense from the human law. On the contrary, The Apostle says ( 1 Cor. 9:17 ): "A dispensation is committed to me." I answer that, Dispensation, properly speaking, denotes a measuring out to individuals of some common goods: thus the head of a…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 100 (Migne)
ihi mori, quam ut gloriam meam quis evacuet. Quae est gloria mea? ut Evangelium sine sumptu exponam (I Cor. IX, 15-18). Hoc enim tantus et a Deo specialiter electus gentium [Col. 0205D] praedicator egit, ut omnem radicitus occasionem avaritiae praedicatoribus abscinderet: quaten…
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