7. Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?
8. Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?
9. For it is written in the law of Moses, Do not muzzle an ox while it treads out grain. Is God really concerned with oxen?
10. Or isn’t He really saying it for us? Yes, this is written for us, because he who plows ought to plow in hope, and he who threshes should do so in hope of sharing the crop.