It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Elles l'ont bien voulu, et elles le leur devaient; car si les païens ont eu part à leurs avantages spirituels, ils doivent aussi les assister dans les choses temporelles.
KJV
It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
e plough of God's word." Those also who minister to the preachers may live on alms. Hence a gloss on Rom. 15:27, "If the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they ought also in carnal things to minister to them," says, "namely, to the Jews who sent preache…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 100 (Migne)
arnalibus, quae ministrantur tibi tuisque sociis spiritalia sibi suisque commanipularibus accipiant (Rom. XV, 27, et I Cor. IX, 11) . Memor quanta seipsum districtione pius praedicator Paulus obligavit dicens: Vae mihi! si non evangelizavero (I Cor. IX, 16) . Et iterum, quam te…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 181 (Migne)
s ait: «Si spiritalium eorum participes facti sunt gentiles, debent et in carnalibus ministrare eis (Rom. XV, 27) .» Sequitur: VERS. 4.---«Erubesce Sidon, ait mare, fortitudo maris dicens: Non parturivi et non peperi, et non enutrivi juvenes, nec ad incrementum perduxi virgines…
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