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This was not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.
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Verse 9. If I, to whom you are indebted for the preaching of the gospel, have yielded my claims, unwilling to receive any thing from you, and even labouring with my own hands for the necessaries of life, how are those to be borne with who do nothing, and yet will be supported at another’s expense? for Saint Paul had witnessed amongst them some of this idle disposition. Estius.
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