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1. Aoylac, collection) A plain [not figurative] term well adapted to the commencement of this subject, ver. 2 : it is called a bless- ing,1 2 Cor. ix. 5. — e/g roug ay hug, for the saints ) He would rather call them the saints than the poor ; and he does so both because this appellation is suited to the importance of the object and fitted for obtaining it. — dieru% a, I have given order) by apostolic authority, which was familiar to the Galatians . — TaXar/ag, of Galatia) He proposes the Galatians as an example to the Cor- inthians, the Corinthians to the Macedonians, the Corinthians and Macedonians to the Romans : 2 Cor. ix. 2 ; Rom. xv. 26. There is great force in examples.
2. Kara y'/av, on the first day) The Lord’s day even already at that time was peculiarly observed. On the Sabbath the Jews and Christians met together ; next day the latter engaged in the duties peculiar to themselves. The Sabbath is used by Synecdoche [see Append.] for the week ; usually the form of ex- pression is ij ilia 6a(3(3aruv , the one , i.e., the first day of the week ; but here the article is not used, in order that xara may retain its distributive meaning. The advice is easily put in practice. When men give once for all, not so much is given. If [when] a man every Lord’s day has laid by something, more has been collected, than one would have given at once. — exatfrog, every one) even those not very rich. — reap laurfi, by himself) apart , that it may appear, what he himself lays by ; whether others lay by more sparingly or more liberally than he does. The Corinthians had not yet a common treasury in the Church. — n6sru, let him lay by) at the public meeting. — G^avpi^uv, in store) plentifully, a pleasant word, 1 Tim. vi. 19. — tvodurai, it may be convenient )2 according as one’s mind is willing and one’s means are easy. It is a matter of Christian prudence to put in practice, according as
1 iv’Koylet, a figurative term for bounty; whereas here the plain term Xoytoc, is used. — Ed.
2 So Vulg. “ Quod ei placuerit.” But Engl. Ver. “ As God hath prospered him.”
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