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<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24pt;">Self-serving rewrite of the Law --&nbsp;</span></strong></span></p>
<p>&nbsp;<span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24pt;">Torah -- in 1 Corinthians 9: 9 - 10</span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24pt;"></span></strong></span> &nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">We all know Jesus taught the apostles as they preach and teach to lay no cost on any one listening for "freely you received, freely give." (Matt 10:8.) Jesus in the next few verses explained the way an evangelist can obtain support is to follow the Mosaic law on hospitality. Go into a town, and ask for a room to stay in another's home, and offer house-hold services. If you do exceptionally much, the home owner has a duty to pay you a wage -- the "worker is worthy of his wage." See&nbsp;<a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/670-matthew-10-10-and-the-law-of-hospitality.html" style="color: #517291;">Law of Hospitality from Leviticus 25:6</a>.</span><span style="color: #494a44;"><br /></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Jesus thereby gave a restrictive method of support to any one serving Christ by evangelism -- preaching or teaching the gospel. Jesus also warned it is impossible to serve mammon and God at the same time -- for you will be tempted to protect your mammon over your love for God. "You cannot serve God and money." (<a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/6-24.htm">Matt 6:24</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">By contrast, Paul in 1 Corinthians 9:7 is going to defend the proposition that one who preaches and teaches is entitled to money from his listeners in compensation for the same. While Paul generally rejects the Law given Moses, Paul makes&nbsp;<strong>one exception</strong>. Paul embraces a verse in Deuteronomy which Paul claims expressly&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">supports the proposition in 1 Cor. 9:7 that a preacher / teacher is entitled to financial support from listeners. Paul cites suprisingly a Mosaic law passage&nbsp;<strong>as always intended at the time God first uttered it</strong>&nbsp;as only to benefit teachers and preacher's rights, and was not supposedly intended to benefit the animal which the verse actually mentions (i.e., an ox).&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">However, at close reading this passage by all appearances has nothing to do with anything but animal husbandry. It appears to be solely about the proper thoughtful care for one's animal: an ox.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">What law are we talking about? </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">It is Deuteronomy 25 verse four.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">In the Law given Moses,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+25%3A4&amp;version=NIV">Deut 25:4</a>&nbsp;is one of the shortest verses in the Torah with no preceding or succeeding verse amplifying it or setting it up. It reads just this:&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Nothing about a teacher or preacher is mentioned. God obviously cares for an ox. By its God-given nature, an ox eats grass. The ox should not be prevented from eating the grass as it treads the grain. God mercifully&nbsp;allows the ox to enjoy the grass as it goes about treading out the grain. This is to be done obviously so as to not frustrate the oxen's natural desire to eat t</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">he delicious grass it sees. What a merciful creator we have! He even cares for the oxen!&nbsp; </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">As Jesus said about sparrows, God "feeds them" (<a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/6-26.htm">Matt 6:6</a>) and a single "sparrow will not fall to the ground without the Father's <strong>care</strong>." (<a href="https://biblehub.com/matthew/10-29.htm">Matt 10:29</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">God loves animals too, and desires their protection. That is absolutely 100% clear from Jesus.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">But what does Paul say that Deuteronomy 25:4 is "no doubt" about? Paul insists the verse never meant what it said. It supposedly is not intended to be about care for an ox. Paul insists this is the case by means of a rhetorical question to make the point. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">First Paul says we know God does not care about oxen, for he rhetorically asks "<strong>Does God care for oxen?</strong>" We know the question is rhetorical to signify <strong>God does not care for oxen</strong> because Paul follows by saying that the verse is meant "<strong>altogether</strong>" for someone other than an ox -- it is "altogether" -- meaning <strong>only</strong> -- for "<strong>our sake</strong>." Paul claims without shame that this passage is God's command to only be about supporting Paul and others like himself who teach and preach.&nbsp; I kid you not!</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Please listen attentively. Paul writes in 1 Corinthians:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">For it is written in the&nbsp;<strong>law of Moses,</strong>&nbsp;&ldquo;You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain.&rdquo;&nbsp;<strong>Is it oxen God is concerned about</strong>?&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">10&nbsp;</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">Or does He say&nbsp;</span><span style="font-style: italic; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">it</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">&nbsp;<strong>altogether</strong> for our sakes? For <strong>our sakes</strong>,&nbsp;<span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>no doubt</strong></span>,&nbsp;</span><strong><span style="font-style: italic; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">this</span></strong><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial;">&nbsp;is written, that&nbsp;he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope. (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A9-10&amp;version=NKJV">1 Cor. 9:9-10 NKJV</a>.)&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Thus, Paul refutes this verse as ever&nbsp; truly intended to be a lesson to protect the well-being of your oxen. The rhetorical question which dismisses this verse as truly about oxen is: "Does God care for oxen?" By Paul next saying it "no doubt" is "altogether" for "our sakes," the rhetorical question clearly signifies that "God does&nbsp;<strong>not</strong>&nbsp;care for oxen." Instead of it being on how to care for an ox, Paul insists "<strong>no doubt</strong>" this verse is God's command to provide financial nourishment to Paul and those like him who preach and teach. Paul tells Gentiles to <strong>obey that one Law given Moses</strong>. This verse supposedly intends to allow those who plow "hope"&nbsp; in others to reap "hope" from them. "Hope" on the receiving end here is a euphemism in context for <strong>money, financial rewards and the like</strong>.&nbsp; </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul brings that out loud and clear in the succeding verses:&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">11&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">If we have <strong>sown spiritual</strong> seed among you, is it</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="background: white;"> too much <strong>if we reap a material harvest</strong> from </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="background: white;">you?</span>&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">12&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">If others have this <strong>right of support from </strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="background: white;"><strong>you</strong>, shouldn&rsquo;t <strong>we have it all the more?</strong> ****</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;<span style="font-weight: bold; background: white;">14&nbsp;</span><span style="background: white;">In the same way, the Lord <strong>has commanded </strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="background: white;"><strong>that those who preach the gospel should receive </strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="background: white;"><strong>their living from the gospel</strong>. (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A11-12%2C+14&amp;version=NIV">1 Cor. 9:11-12, 14 </a></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="background: white;"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A11-12%2C+14&amp;version=NIV">NIV</a>.)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">There is no doubt about this. Paul again in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+5%3A17-18&amp;version=NIV">1 Tim.5:17-18 NIV</a>&nbsp;quotes the ox passage from the Mosaic Law as matter-of-factly proving, ipso facto, to confer a right to a living from the gospel, which it nowise intended nor implied.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><span style="line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; font-weight: bold; display: inline;">17&nbsp;</span>The elders&nbsp;who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of&nbsp;<strong>double honor</strong>,&nbsp;especially those whose work is&nbsp;<strong>preaching and teaching</strong>.<span id="en-NIV-29782"><span style="line-height: normal; position: relative; vertical-align: text-top; top: auto; font-weight: bold; display: inline;">18&nbsp;</span></span><span id="en-NIV-29782">For Scripture says, &ldquo;Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,&rdquo;</span></span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Thus, Paul's point is clear what is the result of his view of the express meaning of Deuteronomy 25:4 is "altogether" something else than its literal meaning.&nbsp; God has supposedly commanded the people to make sure their preachers and teachers receive from them the support they need for living. This is the exact opposite of what Jesus taught, as well as completely unsupportable as the meaning of Deuteronomy 25:4 except by the most blatant juggling imaginable.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Moreover, as Macarius Magnes noted in the 300s, Paul makes this one law from the Mosaic Law apply when it suits his financial advantage and that of those who gain by following Paul and using his words to gain money for preaching and teaching. Otherwise, Paul teaches us the law is "dead," and has faded away. See <a href="/recommendedreading/106-chapter-five-jwo.html">JWO Chapter 5</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Also, we must remember Paul's reading violates something Jesus expressly prohibited in Matthew 10:8.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Can no one see the <strong>immorality of Paul's thoughts</strong>? Its blatant <strong>denial</strong> of this verse's clear words? Its <strong>blatant contradiction</strong> of Jesus in Matt 10:8? Can we ignore the wilfulness of Paul to baselessly re-write a Bible verse that he confesses is still operative in the present dispensation when it obviously is to his blatant financial advantage? Yet when not to his financial advantage, such as preaching costly grace based upon the Law (as Jesus taught in Matthew 19 which repelled a would-be disciple), Paul otherwise says that the Law is dead, gone, and nailed to a cross.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Does this explain why the 12 apostles instead commended their missionaries to the gentiles to take<strong> no money?</strong>&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Because that for his name's sake they went forth,&nbsp;<strong>taking nothing of the Gentiles.</strong>&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=3%20John%207" style="color: #517291;">3 John 7</a>.)&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Wasn't it to avoid corruption of the message to earn money from Gentiles? To avoid temptation to water down the gospel to Gentiles to suit financial gain? To prevent the temptation to corrupt scripture to say what it does not say for purely selfish corrupt purposes?&nbsp; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Wasn't this the true apostolic practice to also avoid any self-interest to completely nullify the rights of another under the Law such as a poor ox, and transfer those rights completely to yourself?&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">This passage from Paul all by itself constitutes the clearest case of&nbsp;<a href="/recommendedreading/737-anomia-in-nt-means-negation-mosaic-law.html">ANOMIA</a>&nbsp;/ APOSTASY under Deut 13:1-5. &nbsp;However, a Gentile would not readily know that. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">For this passage from Paul both materially subtracts and adds to what Paul acknowledges as God's present Word which we must obey.&nbsp;The self-interest is blatant: the verse was supposedly&nbsp;<strong>only</strong> about preachers and teachers "no doubt" in which Paul named himself, and not truly about any concern by God for oxen.&nbsp; </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul's passage presents a <strong>unique</strong> example of apostasy. For while either a material addition or a subtraction from a command of God can alone be apostasy, Paul completely alters a command he says is from God to mean something <strong>exclusively different</strong> than what it actually means. That is apostasy on steroids.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">So dear good Bereans, ask yourself in your heart before God the following: </span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Can this passage from Paul represent anything but a <strong>blatant</strong> and&nbsp;<strong>heinous self-interested apostasy</strong> against what Paul insisted was God's still&nbsp;<strong>operative</strong>&nbsp;command in Deut 25:4?</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 60px;">&nbsp;</p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Doesn't this passage in 1 Corinthians 9 therefore support among abundant other evidence why the Jerusalem Apostolic Church after the book of Acts closes in 58 AD found that Paul was an apostate, and told all followers of Christ not to follow Paul's teachings? See&nbsp;<a href="/recommendedreading/840-ebionites-first-apostolic-church-rejected-writings-of-paul.html">The Early Apostolic Church Rejected Paul.</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Also, doesn't the adoption under Constantine of tax support and subsidies for a new hierarchical position&nbsp; -- the priest -- have its only legitimacy in Paul's writings -- where such subsidies outside the Law of Hospitality -- were wholy rejected by Christ himself? </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Finally, does Paul's reasonings satisfy a prophecy of Jesus in his talk with Peter and the apostles recorded in the once part of Christian canon -- the <strong>Apocalypse of Peter</strong> --&nbsp; which was&nbsp; removed in the era of Constantine (see&nbsp;<span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Peter" style="color: #517291; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apocalypse of Peter</a><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; white-space: pre-wrap;">," Wikipedia)? For there </span>Jesus during his ministry tells the disciples that after he departs, a seduction of his followers of the following type will begin:</span></p>
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<p style="padding-left: 60px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">&nbsp;<span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">"And they will cleave to the name of a dead man, thinking that they will become pure. But they will become greatly defiled and they will fall into a name of error, and into the hand of</span><em style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></em><strong style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">an evil, <span style="color: #ff0000;">cunning</span> man and a manifold dogma, and they will be ruled without law</strong><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">." (Fred Lapham, <strong>Peter: The Myth, the Man and the Writings</strong> (2004) at <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Apocrypha_8/zmpgCgAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;bsq=an%20evil%2C%20cunning%20man%20and%20a%20manifold%20dogma%2C%20and%20they%20will%20be%20ruled%20without%20law.&amp;dq=an%20evil%2C%20cunning%20man%20and%20a%20manifold%20dogma%2C%20and%20they%20will%20be%20ruled%20without%20law.&amp;pg=PA116&amp;printsec=frontcover">116</a>.)</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Furthermore, what comes to mind is a passage in Enoch - a&nbsp; work the apostolic church (Jude's Epistle) quoted as an inspired work:&nbsp;</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 30px;">Woe to them who act godlessly and <strong>glory in lying words</strong> and <strong>extol them</strong>: you will perish and no happy life will be yours. 2. Woe to them who <strong>pervert the words of uprightness</strong>&nbsp;and <strong>transgress the eternal law</strong>, and <strong>transform themselves into</strong> what they were not [i.e., "adopt foreign customs and make themselves sinful Gentiles: <strong>become apostates</strong>"]. They will be trodden under foot upon the earth.&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black; padding-left: 30px;">(<strong>The Book of Enoch</strong> (1893)(Charles trans.) at pp. 283-284 excerpted <a href="https://airtable.com/shr1xpj429kmc8DXP">here</a>.)(The quotations inside the brackets are Charles' footnote explanations.)&nbsp;</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><strong>FOR FURTHER STUDY</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><strong style="color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #0000ff;">Macarius Magnes Notes This Passage in the 300s</span></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">Long before I came across this passage, Macarius Magnes addressed this passage with similar observations.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;"></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;">Macarius</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;Magnes in his&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/macarius_apocriticus.htm"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; background: white;">Apocriticus</span></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; color: #494a44; background: white;">&nbsp;III.30-36 </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'; color: #494a44; background: white;">(circa </span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 18pt;">300 AD) writes:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; padding-left: 60px;"><span style="color: black;">That he <strong>dissembles</strong> the Gospel for the <strong>sake of vainglory</strong>, and <strong>the law for the sake of covetousness</strong>, is <strong>plain</strong> from his words, "Who ever goeth to war at his own charges? Who shepherdeth the flock and doth not eat of the milk&nbsp;of the flock?" (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+9%3A7&amp;version=NIV">1 Cor. 9:7</a>). And, in his <strong>desire</strong> to get hold of these things, he <strong>calls in the law</strong> as a supporter of his<strong> covetousness</strong>, saying, "Or doth not the law say these things ? For in the law of Moses it is written, Thou shall not <strong>muzzle an ox</strong> that is treading out the corn " (</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: #494a44; background: white;">v.&nbsp;</span><span style="color: black;">9). Then he adds a statement which is obscure and <strong>full of nonsense</strong>, by way of<strong> cutting off the divine forethought</strong> from the brute <strong>beasts</strong>, saying, "Doth God take care of the oxen, or doth he say it on our account? <strong>On our account it was written</strong>" (</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: #494a44; background: white;">v</span><span style="color: black;">. 10).</span><a href="http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/macarius_apocriticus_fn.htm#203"><span style="vertical-align: super; background: white;"></span></a><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;It seems to me that in saying this he is <strong>mocking the wisdom of the Creator</strong>, as if it contained no forethought for the things that had long ago been brought into being. For <strong>if God does not take care of oxen</strong>, pray, why is it written, "He hath subjected all things, sheep and oxen and beasts and birds and the fishes" (Ps. viii. 8-9) ? If He takes account of fishes, much more of oxen which plough and labour. Wherefore I am amazed at such <strong>an impostor</strong>, who pays such <strong>solemn respect to the law</strong> because<strong> he is insatiable</strong>, for the sake of <strong>getting a sufficient contribution</strong> from those who are subject to him. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">For more on Macarius Magnes, see our<a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/component/content/article/1-jwo/397-macarius-magnes-on-paul-from-circa-300-ad.html"> page</a> dedicated to Macarius' tactical criticisms of Paul.&nbsp;</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times; color: #0000ff;">The Didache of the Early 100s</span></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><br />A work entitled the&nbsp;<strong>Didache, or Teaching of the Apostles</strong>, was found in the 1800s. It dates to as early as the 100s as apostolic sayings of the twelve apostles.&nbsp; The apostles are recorded teaching us to give room and board to Christ's messengers for one or two days (<em>i.e.</em>,&nbsp;the law of hospitality in Leviticus to which Jesus alluded in Matthew 10), but "If he remain a third day, he is a false prophet." (Quoted in Edwin Johnson,&nbsp;<em>Antiqua Mater</em>&nbsp;(1887) at&nbsp;<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LTc1AQAAIAAJ&amp;dq=Antiqua%20Mater%3A%20A%20Study%20of%20Christian%20Origins&amp;pg=PA57#v=onepage&amp;q=ebionites&amp;f=false" style="color: #517291;">page 57.</a>)</span></p>
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