Laboring Unto This Present Hour

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; and labour, working with our own hands. (1 Corinthians 4:11-12)

We are expressly told in the history, that at Corinth St. Paul laboured with his own hands: “He found Aquila and Priscilla; and, because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought; for by their occupation they were tent-makers.” But, in the text before us, he is made to say, that he laboured “even unto this present hour,” that is, to the time of writing the epistle at Ephesus.

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Author: William Paley

Keywords: Tent maker, Tentmaker, Paul's occupation, Physical labor, Labor

Bible reference(s): Acts 18:3, Acts 20:33-34, 1 Corinthians 4:11-12

Source: Horae Paulinae (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1850).

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