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the Lord. — rrru^eicc grXovryjgyirtj through His poverty ye might he rich ) So through the instrumentality of all those things, which the Lord has suffered, the contrary benefits have been pro- cured for us, 1 Pet. ii. 24, end of ver.
10. Kai, and) — gv/iiptpti, is expedient) An argument from the useful , moving them to give : So, ver. 16, Irrtp. A most pleasant paradox. — rb tro/rigai, to do) for the past year. — rb 6iX s/v, [to be forward] to be willing) for this year.
11. Ti $ro/Sj<ra/, the doing) that you may do again. — tnirtXtgart, perform) The beginning and especially the end of actions lays the foundation of praise or else blame, Gen. xi. 6 ; Josh. vi. 26 ; Jer. xliv. 25. — orrug, that) namely, it may he. — ix roo £%£/v, out of that which you have) not more. The proposition [theme for dis- cussion] in relation to what follows.
12. Upoxeirca, if there he obvious [if there be first]) So crov?j- pia Kpoxtirui evil is before you , Ex. x. 10. — tugrpogdtxrog, he is welUacccepted or very acceptable ) to God, ch. ix. 7, with his gift. [Not as Engl. Y. “ it is accepted ix. 7 confirms this, u The Lord loveth a cheerful giver”'] — ou xaOb ovx e%e/, not according to what a man has not) For thus [were God’s favour regulated by the amount of the gift, not by the willingness of the giver] a more humble person would be less acceptable.
13. Ou yap) for not , viz. the object aimed at is not. The rule of exercising liberality. — avt gig- 6Xtyig) The same antithesis is found, 2 Thess. i. 6, 7. — sg igorrirog, by an equality) in carnal things. [Love thy neighbour , as thyself (not more). — Y. g.] — h roj vvv xaipcpy at the present [juncture] time) This limitation does not occur again in the following verse. — rb — vtp/ggtv^a, abundance) in external resources [means]. The imperative yzvsgdu is courteously omitted, for he does not command , ver. 8.
14. Ka / rb — mpiggiv^a, that also their abundance) in spiritual things.1 — ysvrira/ tig) We have the same expression at Gal. iii. 14. — ro v/jjuv vgrtprif^a, your [spiritual] want) inasmuch as ye were Gentiles. Their [spiritual] abundance had already begun to supply the want of the Corinthians ; he is therefore speaking
1 As Jews. Eng. Ver. evidently takes it of temporal abundance, t.e., that if hereafter ye be in want, their abundance may supply you, as you now supply them. But Beng. takes both “ your abundance” (temporal) and theirs (spiritual) of the present time. — Ed.