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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
If the work of preaching had not been entrusted to me, but I were performing it of my own accord, then I would have a great and abundant reward. But if it has been entrusted to me, clearly I am performing it not of my own accord, but am acting according to the will of the Master. This is what "unwillingly" means. Therefore this work does not merit honor, for I am merely fulfilling the ministry entrusted to me. Note also the following. …
Western Saints
Bonaventure
To that which is objected, that such men are imitators of Gehazi, who minister spiritual things for temporal ones: to this the Gloss responds sufficiently enough on that passage of 1 Corinthians 9: A dispensation is entrusted to me: "We ought not to preach the Gospel in order that we may eat, but rather to eat in order that we may preach the Gospel, so that food is not a good which is sought after, but a necessity which is added; so that that saying may be fulfilled: Seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things …
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