If we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you? — The transition from scripture to his own apostolic work: Paul has sown spiritually (ta pneumatika espeiramen); the Corinthians are harvest. The rhetorical question presumes that material support (sarká) is the minimal return for spiritual labor. The asymmetry—giving spirit, receiving material—is no violation but simple reciprocity.

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