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on his mission to the Gentiles, one of the stipulations made with him was that he should ‘remember the poor” (Gal. ii. το). This stipulation he faithfully observed, and it was to convey the money thus entrusted to him to its proper recipients that he paid his last visit to Jerusalem (Acts xxiv. 17). See further the excellent discussion in Stan- ley’s note on 1 Cor, xvi. 1.
Chap. viii. vv. 1-7. THE LIBERALITY OF THE MACEDONIAN CHURCHES—AN EXAMPLE TO CoriINnTH.—Ver. 1. Γ ἵομεν δὲ ὑμῖν κιτιλ.: moreover (for this is the force of the δὲ μεταβατικόν, mark- ing the transition to a new subject; cf. 1 Cor, vii. 1, viii. 1, xv. 1, Chap. x. 1, etc.), brethren, we make known to you the grace of God, sc., the special grace of liberality in giving, which has been given in, i.e., given to and exhibited in (see on i. 22), the Churches of Macedonia, ¢.g., Philippi, Thessalonica and Bercea (Acts xvi. and xvii.), which places we may presume he revisited on this journey.
Ver. 2. ὅτι ἐν πολλῇ δοκιμῇ κ.τ.λ.: how that in much proof of affliction, i.e., in spite of the severe afflictions by which they were tried, probably a reference to persecution and annoyance from their heathen neighbours (see Acts xvi. 20, Phil. i, 28, 1 Thess. i. 6, ii, 14, iii. 3-9), the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty (κατὰ βάθους = ‘reaching deep down ”’; cf. the phrase in Strabo, ix., 419, ἄντρον κοῖλον κατὰ βάθους) abounded unto the riches of their liberality. ἁπλοῦς means primarily ‘ simple,” “ single- minded” (Matt. vi. 22), and ἁπλότης is thus used by St. Paul in chap. xi. 3, Eph. vi. 5, Col. iii. 22; but single- mindedness or ‘theartiness” of giving (see 1 Chron, xxix. 17) involves “ liber-
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