further supplies [supplies in addition]) a double compound. Their wants were also supplied from other quarters. — oroXXuv, by many ) feminine [not 66 thanksgivings of many.”']
13. AoxifLng) [ the experiment ] the proof afforded by this minis- tration.— bo^d^ovreg, glorifying) This depends on thanksgivings , ver. 12. Again the nominative case, on the same principle as viii. 23, note, [T/Vou, xo/vcovog — adgXpo/.] — ion rr\ vororuy/} rrjg o/JjoXo- yiag y/Awv, for the subjection of your profession) They were about to profess by their very acts, that they acknowledged the divine bounty shown to themselves in the Gospel, [and had yielded [victas dedisse sc. manus) to the word of grace. — V. g.] — %a i eig ordvrag, and to all) He, who benefits some of the saints, by that very act benefits all ; for he shows, that he is favourable to all.
14. Agio's/, on account of their prayer) [But Engl. Vers., 66 by their prayer for you.”] Construe, glorifying [bo^dfyvreg, ver. 13] for their prayer ; for we give thanks even for the prayers which have been given to us [which God has enabled us to offer], 2 Tim. i. 3 [I thank God , that without ceasing I have remem- brance of thee in my prayers']. — bmoeoQobvrwv, greatly desiring) construe with auruv, of them. — bid, on account of for) construe with thanksgivings [e by^upusndv, ver. 12], — if v/j^Tv) which rests upon you , in such a degree as that it redounds to their ad- vantage.
15. Xdpig, thanks) This is the meaning : God has given us rrjv bupedv, the gift , abundance of good things both internal and external, which both is in itself inexpressible , and bears fruits of a corresponding description ; comp. ver. 8, etc. (where there is an expression [an attempt to express the abundance of the gift], but its words are not adequate so as to satisfy Paul’s mind), and ch. viii. 9, 1, and the full expression of these fruits, by reason of the copiousness of the topics, has rendered the language itself at the end of the preceding chapter somewhat perplexed. The modus1 is added, thanks be to God.
1 See Append. rt Modalis Sermo.” Here, the modus accompanying the simple naked proposition is thanksgiving. — Ed.