Study Desk

My defence, unto them who are examining me, is this:

Have we not a right to eat and drink?

Have we not a right to take round, a sister wife, - as even the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

Or have, only I and Barnabas, not a right to forbear working?

Who serveth as a soldier, at his own charges, at any time? Who planteth a vineyard, - and, the fruit thereof, doth not eat? Orwho shepherdeth a flock, - and, of the milk of the flock, doth not eat?