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Hireling
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
Contemptuous name for one who works for wages only, and makes the reward his only motive (Job 7); through Our Lord's use of the word, it has come to express one who has no interest in his work and is unfaithful in performing it (John 10), the difference between the true and the mercenary shepherd of souls.
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Entry for 'Hireling'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ncd/h/hireling.html. 1910.