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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on 1Cor 9:17
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · 1871
1Cor 9:17 · Douay-Rheims
“For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation is committed to me:”
On this verse:
“Translate, "If I be doing this (that is, preaching) of my own accord (which I am not, for the 'necessity' is laid on me which binds a servant to obey his master), I have a reward; but if (as is the case) involuntarily (Act 9:15; Act 22:15; Act 26:16); not of my own natural will, but by the constraining grace of God; (Rom 9:16; Ti1 1:13-16), I have had a dispensation (of the Gospel) entrusted to me" (and so can claim no "reward," seeing that I only "have done that which was my duty to do," Luk 17:10, but incur the "woe," Co1 9:16, if I fail in it).”
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.