1 Corinthians 9:10

ἐπ' ἐλπίδι τοῦ μετέχειν אABC Peshito. And so (with fructus added) Vulg. Rec. τῆς ἐλπίδος αὐτοῦ μετέχειν ἐπ' ἐλπίδι with E.

10. δι' ἡμᾶς. ‘On account of us preachers of the Gospel.’

γάρ. ‘Yes, for on our account was written what follows, that he who plougheth,’ &c.

ὁ�' ἐλπίδι τοῦ μετέχειν. He who thresheth in hope of partaking. In this verse we may observe that the word here translated threshing in A.V. is rendered treadeth out in 1 Corinthians 9:9, because the usual Eastern mode of threshing corn was by means of oxen. See Art. ‘Agriculture’ in Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, and Kitto’s Biblical Cyclopaedia. The flail appears to have been occasionally used for the lighter kinds of grain (Ruth 2:17), and threshing instruments are occasionally mentioned in the later books of the Old Testament, e.g. 2 Samuel 24:22; 1 Chronicles 21:23; Isaiah 41:15.