If we have sown unto you spiritual things St Paul's third argument is drawn from the principles of natural gratitude. If we have conferred on you such inestimable benefits, it is surely no very burdensome return to give us our maintenance. Not, says Estius, that the one is in any sense the price paid for the other, for the two are too unequal: but that he who receives gifts so invaluable certainly lies under an obligation to him who imparts them an obligation which he may well requite by ministering to his benefactor in such trifles (see Acts 6:1-4) as food and drink. Cf. Romans 15:17; Galatians 6:6.

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