John Trapp on 1 Timothy 5:17

Verſe 17. Worthy of double honour] viz. Countenance and maintenance; they may give themſelves continually and chearfully to preaching and praier, Act. 6.4. Let them have reverence and recompence.

They who labour] Even to laſſitude, [non-Latin text not transcribed]. as he doth that cleaveth wood, or that toileth in harveſt, or that goeth on warfare, 2 Tim. 2, 3, 4, Preaching is a painfull work, and enfeebleth a man exceedingly, whence the Prophet cries out, My leanneſſe[illegible: 1 letter] my leanneſſe. And our Saviour at little paſt thirty, was reckoned by the Jews to be toward fifty, Joh. 8.57. It is ſuppoſed by Divines, that he had ſo ſpent himſelf in preaching, that he ſeemed to the Jews to be much elder then he was.