Acts 15:35

35 Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also.

Ver. 35. Teaching and preaching ] i.e. Being instant and earnest, non frigidi docent, sed instant et urgent, saith Calvin here; they lay their bones to the Lord’s work, they set their sides and their shoulders to it, as those that would do the deed.

With many others also ] In the primitive times, saith Mr Baxter (Pref. to Saint’s Everlasting Rest), every church had many ministers, wherefore the ablest speakers did preach most in public; and the rest did the more of the less public work. But now sacrilege and covetousness will scarcely leave maintenance for one in a church, &c.