Neville Goddard on 1 Corinthians 9:8-10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Corinthians 9 in context

Scripture Focus

8Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

9For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

10Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

1 Corinthians 9:8-10

Biblical Context

Paul cites the Mosaic law about not muzzling the ox to show that God cares for the laborer. The point is that those who plow and thresh should labor in hope and partake of the harvest.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this text the law ceases to be a distant rule and becomes a picture of your inner activity. The ox and the plow stand for the actions of your mind; when you know you are cared for, the impulse to muzzle your inner labor dissolves. The law was written for our sakes to awaken you to the fact that your own labor in imagination is not separate from supply. You do not withhold nourishment from your inner efforts; you feed your work by the certainty that harvest is already yours. When you labor with hope you align with the state of consciousness that creates the harvest, and the evidence follows as you hold the vision steady until it appears in the outer world.