{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110502.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110502.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110502.htm","text":"Different passages in which the Apostle declares that we ought to work, or in which it is shown that he himself worked.\nIn the Epistle to the Ephesians also he thus gives a charge on this subject of work, saying: \u201cHe that stole, let him now steal no more, but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him that suffereth need.\u201d 980 And in the Acts of the Apostles too we find that he not only taught this, but actually practised it himself. For when he had come to Corinth, he did not permit himself to lodge anywhere except with Aquila and Priscilla, because they were of the same trade which he himself was accustomed to practise. For we thus read: \u201cAfter this, Paul departing from Athens came to Corinth; and finding a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, and Priscilla his wife, he came to them because they were of the same trade; and abode with them, and worked: for they were tent-makers by trade.\u201d 981","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XVII. Different passages in which the Apostle declares that we ought to work, or in which it is shown that he himself worked.","type":"page"}