23. Hence arises another
question; for peradventure one may say, “What then? did the other
Apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas, sin, in that
they did not work? Or did they occasion an hindrance to the Gospel,
because blessed Paul saith that he had not used this power on
purpose that he might not cause any hindrance to the Gospel of
Christ? For if they sinned because they wrought not, then had they
not received power not to work, but to live instead by the Gospel.
But if they had received this power, by ordinance of the Lord, that
they which preach the Gospel should live by the Gospel; and by His
saying, “The workman is worthy of his meat;” which power Paul,
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would not use; then truly they
sinned not. If they
sinned not, they caused no hindrance. For it is
not to be thought no sin to hinder the Gospel.
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If this be so, “to us also,”
say they, “it is free either to use or not to use this
power.”
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