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    • Chapter XIII.—Support of Prophets
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    Chapter XIII.2485

    2485 A large part of this chapter is found in Apostolic Constitutions, vii. 28, 29, but with modifications and additions indicating a later date.  

    —Support of Prophets.

    1. But every true prophet that willeth to abide among you2486

    2486 “Who will settle among you” (Hitchcock and Brown). The itinerant prophets might become stationary, we infer. Chaps. xi.-xv. point to a movement from an itinerant and extraordinary ministry to a more settled one.  

    is worthy of his support.2487

    2487 Lit., “nourishment,” “food.”  

    2. So also a true teacher is himself worthy, as the workman, of his support.2488

    2488 Matt. x. 10; comp. Luke x. 7.  

    3. Every first-fruit, therefore, of the products of wine-press and threshing-floor, of oxen and of sheep, thou shalt take and give to the prophets, for they are your high priests.2489

    2489 This phrase, indicating a sacerdotal view of the ministry, seems to point to a later date than that claimed for the Teaching. Some regard it as an interpolation: others take it in a figurative sense. In Apostolic Constitutions the sacerdotal view is more marked. [1 Pet. ii. 9. If the plebs = “priests,” prophets = “high priests.”] Here the term is restricted to the prophets: compare Schaff Foreign" id="viii.iii.xiii-p6.6">in loco.  

    4. But if ye have not a prophet, give it to the poor. 5. If thou makest a batch of dough, take the first-fruit and give according to the commandment. 6. So also when thou openest a jar of wine or of oil, take the first-fruit and give it to the prophets; 7. and of money (silver) and clothing and every possession, take the first-fruit, as it may seem good to thee, and give according to the commandment.  

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