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MATTHEW 10:41 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 10:40Matt 10:42
“He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.”
The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. The prophet's reward and the righteous person's reward are the rewards associated with their roles — participation in what they embody. The one who receives a prophet because they are a prophet is receiving the word of God the prophet brings; the reward is the benefit of that word. The reception is the reason for the reward: because he is a prophet communicates that the reception is for the person's role rather than for personal benefit.

Church Fathers on Matthew 10:41

The Lord when He sends forth His disciples to preach, teaches them that dangers are not to be feared, that natural affection is to be postponed to religion - gold He had above taken from them, brass He had shaken out of their purses - hard then surely the condition of the preachers! Whence their living? Whence their food and necessaries? Therefore He tempers the rigour of His precepts by the following promises, that in entertaining the Apostles each believer may consider that…

Jerome · 4th century

Enough had been said above to persuade those who should have to entertain the Apostles. For who would not with all willingness take in to his house men who were so courageous, that they despised all dangers that others might be saved?

Chrysostom · 4th century

These words shew that He has a Mediator’s office, and since He came from God, when He is received by us, through Him God is transfused into us; and by this disposition of grace to have received the Apostles is no other than to have received God; for Christ dwells in them, and God in Christ.

Hilary of Poitiers · 4th century
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