Bad Advertisement?
Are you a Christian?
Online Store:Visit Our Store
| Chapter XVII. Different passages in which the Apostle declares that we ought to work, or in which it is shown that he himself worked.
PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP 
Chapter XVII.
Different passages in which the Apostle declares that we
ought to work, or in which it is shown that he himself worked.
In the Epistle to the
Ephesians also he thus gives a charge on this subject of work, saying:
“He that stole, let him now steal no more, but rather let him
labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have
something to give to him that suffereth need.”980
And in the Acts of the Apostles too we
find that he not only taught this, but actually practised it himself.
For when he had come to Corinth, he did not permit himself to lodge
anywhere except with Aquila and Priscilla, because they were of the
same trade which he himself was accustomed to practise. For we thus
read: “After this, Paul departing from Athens came to Corinth;
and finding a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, and Priscilla
his wife, he came to them because they were of the same trade; and
abode with them, and worked: for they were tent-makers by
trade.”981
E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
|
