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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
The Apostle had the right not to labor, since he was occupied with a more important task, preaching, and to be fed at the expense of his disciples; however, out of his goodness he labored and fed both himself and those with him, in order to teach this to his disciples as well.
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
Then when he says "not as if," he gives the reason he worked with his own hands. Here he first sets aside a false reason, and, second, he gives the true reason. It would be a false explanation of his manual labor to say that he was not permitted to receive some payment from them. And so he says "not as if we did not have power," nay, rather, we did have power to live off of what was received from the faithful. "He who serves the altar partakes of the altar" (1 Cor 9:13). "The workman deserves his food" (Matt 10:10). …
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