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see the next verse. The latter is marked in its strict sense. Righteousness is something more. — / remains) unexhausted, uneffaced, unfailing.
10. ‘O Ss) God. — imyopriyuv, He that supplies , or ministeretli) There is [implied an] abundance, inasmuch as seed is given ; bread, which is a necessary, is therefore given first. Paul hints, that, in the promise of the seed, which is denoted by the verb he hath dispersed , the promise of bread also is presupposed ; but he adds more : for there is in the text a Chiasmus ; 1 God, who pre- sents seed to the sower, will supply and multiply your seed : God, who gives bread for food, will increase the fruits [produce] of your righteousness, which feeds the soul. Righteousness is the food of the soul, Matt. v. 6 ; vi. 31, 33. — hiyopriysTv, to supply , or administer , is emphatic ; but yopYiytfv to give or minister , with the addition of n'kriOvvtiv, to multiply , implies more. — 2 Kopog, the seed , i.e., resources [worldly means], so far as they are piously laid out: yzwrj/Aara, the fruits , [the offshoots], i.e., the growth of all spiritual improvement and corporeal blessing, springing from that sowing . This mode of pointing has been already noticed in the Appa- ratus, so that the comma should be placed after (3puav , not after yoprjyvjGsi. — xai aprovy and bread) Is. lv. 10, sug av du (6 Urog) tnepfia ru> tftfeipovr/ %at ciprov sig fipucnv, until the rain give seed to the sower and bread for food. — yopqyrjGzi, will give) The indicative.2 The Corinthians will afford scope [opportunity for exercise] to the divine liberality, and it will evince itself towards them. — yivvrgiccra) so the LXX., yzvvrgjjarot, dixcuoGvvrjgy Hos. x. 12.
11. UXovn^ofisvoiy being enriched) This depends on, that ye may abound , ver. 8. The present here is used to imply; having more than a sufficiency [ver. 8].
12. *H btaxovta rr,g Xzirovpyiag ralrrtg) the administration of this service , a becoming appellation. Xurovpyi a is the function itself, [service to be discharged,] d/axovi a, the act. — <7rpo6a,va<7r'kY}povGu, still
1 See Append.
2 Which is preferred both in the 2d Ed. and in the Germ. Yers. different from what had been the case in the first Ed. — E. B.
BCD(A) corrected later, fg Yulg. (but Fuld. MS. has praestavit — mul- tiplicavit) Cypr. have x°Pv>'/il(ril — 7r^Yi6vvel. G has — %'hv\Qvvu.i ;
and so Rec. Text. C has %'hnd'uvyi. — Ed.
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