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may presume the same of John. — xni oi a deX<poi rou K upfou, and the brethren of the Lord ) Acts i. 14; Gal. i. 19. — xa /' K»jpa$, and Cephas ) There is a gradation here ; comp. iii. 22, note.
6. ToO w ZpyafygQai), to forbear working with the hand .
7. Tig, who) The minister of the Gospel is beautifully com- pared to a soldier, a vine-dresser, a shepherd. The apostle speaks of that which is a common occurrence ; although even then, there had been some, who were soldiers on their own charges — volunteers. — \ pvreusi ; plants) iii. 6,
8. Ka/) also. Not only do I not speak this as a man [accord- ing to mere human modes of thought], but with the approbation of the law itself.
9. Ou (pifjjUXtsig (3ovv uXowvra) So the lxx., Deut. xxv. 4. — dXowura, threshing) Horses in the present day are employed in threshing corn in some parts of Germany. — /aj? ruv fiouv, does God care for oxen) It is not at all denied, that God cares for oxen, since the man, who would have muzzled the ox, threshing the corn, would have committed a sin against the law. But the conclusion proceeds from the less to the greater. [If God cares for mere oxen, much more for men]. This is a specimen of the right mode of handling the Mosaic laws, enacted regarding animals.
10. ndvrug, altogether) The word, ( saying,’ is put into the question itself. — or/) namely, that — hr sXxidi), flDX>, which the lxx. always render lx sXx/d/ : comp. Acts ii. 26. — cxps/Xsi , ought ) There is a change of person. The obligation [implied in otpe/Xsi] is with them that remunerate, not with them that labour ; other- wise the latter would commit sin by not receiving. So also regarding the precept, ver. 14 : comp. I ought , 2 Cor. xii. 11. — 6 uporp/uv, that [animal] which plow eth [or he that ploweth ]) This also is the labour of oxen. It seems to be an adage, something like this ; hope supports the husbandman. — rtjg sXmdog aurou,1 oj
1 The margin of the 2d Ed. prefers the shorter reading, lie tov
(AiTtwiv, of which there is not a vestige, either in the older Ed., or in the Gnomon, or in the Germ. Yers. — E. B.
i-r fanil/ rov pcsTt^uv is the reading of ABC both Syr. (Memph.) Theb. Vulg. (in spe fructus percipiendi) Grig. 1,170 ; 541 c. But D (A) corrected later, G fg read rijs iXrrilog ccvrov p^irk-^uv : to which Rec. Text adds ix tXxlh/. — Ed.
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