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ἔχοντες, περισσεύητε ἢ εἰς ¥ πᾶν " ἔργον "ἀγαθόν: 9. καθὼς γέγραπ- 2 Tim. ii.
ται, ὅ ““᾿Εσκόρπισεν, ἔδωκε τοῖς πένησιν - ἡ δικαιοσύνη αὐτοῦ μένει 2 Ps. cxi. 9.
3 εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα 1...
ν 3 3 A ο , 3 και αρτον εἰς βρῶσιν χορηγησαι, κ
1Ο. ὁ δὲ " ἐπιχορηγῶν " σπέρμα 2 τῷ σπείροντι αἱ “᾿ πληθύναι ὃ τὸν
a Gal. iii. 5; Col. ii. 19; cf. Phil. i.
σπόρον 19.
Ὁ Isa. lv. 1ο,
d
ὑμῶν, καὶ αὐξήσαι ὃ τὰ “ γεννήματα ὁ τῆς "δικαιοσύνης ὑμῶν" 11. 51 Pet. iv.
fest ἵεται δι ἡμῶν " εὐχαριστίαν τῷ ὃ
1 ra λειτουργίας ταύτης οὐ μόνον ἐστὶ
παντὶ © πλουτιζόμενοι εἰς πᾶσαν " ἁπλότητα, ἥτις ° | κατεργά-
11 only; Ecclus. XX XIX. σα.
Θεῷ 12. ὅτι ἡ διακονία τῆς d Here only
in Paul.
™ προσαναπληροῦσα τὰ " ὑστερή- e Hos. x. 12.
f Reff. iv. 8.
- , a lal ματα τῶν “ ἁγίων, ἀλλὰ καὶ περισσεύουσα διὰ πολλῶν εὐχαριστιῶν g Refi.vi.x0.
2. i Reff. iv. 17.
κ Reff. iv. 15. ο Reff. i. 1.
1 GK, ἢ, g add του αιωγος at end.
1 Phil. ii. 17, 30.
h Κε. viii.
τῇ Chap. xi.gonly. ῃ Reff. viii. 13.
2? SCDbcEKLP support σπερµα; BD*G have σπορον-
® sscDcGKL support the aorist infinitives (or optatives) ; better χορηγήσει... πληθυνει . . - αυξησει with S*BCD*P, the Latins and the Bohairic,
4 The uncials have γενηµατα. ὃ D* has ει τις for ητις. 8 D* om. tw; Β has ευχαρ. Θεου-
all grace, t.e,, every gift, temporal as well as spiritual, abound unto you (see reff. iv. 15 for περισσεύω in a transitive significa- tion), in order that ye, having always all sufficiency, sc., of worldly goods and gifts (for πᾶσαν see reff. vili. 7), may abound unto every good work. Note the parono- masia, ἐν παντὶ, πάντοτε, πᾶσαν .. - περισσεύητε . . . πᾶν.
Vv. 9 and το are parenthetical, con- taining an illustrative quotation and its application.—Ver. 9. καθὼς γέγραπται “ Ἐσκόρπισεν κ.τ.λ.: as it is written, sc., in the words of Scripture (perhaps the quotation was suggested by the image of sowing and reaping which re- called the word ἐσκόρπισεν), ‘He, sc., the liberal man, hath scattered abroad (ef. Prov. xi. 24), he hath given to the poor, his righteousness, i.e., his beneficence (as at Matt. vi. 1; St. Paul, when using his own words, never uses δικαιοσύνη in this old Hebrew sense), endureth for ever.”
Ver. το. ὃ δὲ ἐπιχορηγῶν “σπέρμα τῷ σπείροντι κ.τ.λ.: and he that sup- plieth “seed to the sower and bread for food,” shall supply and multiply your seed, t.e., your means of giving, for sow- ing (the A.V. not only follows the inferior reading, but conceals the quotation from Isa, lv. το), and increase (cf. τ Cor. ili. 6 for the trans. use of αὐξάνω) the “ fruits” of your ‘‘vightecousness,” 1.6., οἵ your beneficence, as in the preceding verse. The phrase γενήματα δικαιοσύνης in ref. Hosea may be illustrated by τὸ γένημα
δα, g read wa ev παντι.
7 C?P, g* and the Harclean margin give δι υμων-
τῆς ἀμπέλου, “the fruit of the vine ” in the Gospels (e.g., Mark xiv. 25). This verse is the application, as it were, of the quotation in ver. 9, the connecting link being the word δικαιοσύνη.
Ver. 11. He now resumes the general subject of ver. 8, ἐν παντὶ πλουτιζόμενοι here being in apposition with ἐν παντὶ - + + ἔχοντες there; there is thus no necessity to treat πλουτιζ. as a nom. pendens.—év παντὶ πλουτιζόμενοι κ.τ.λ.: ye being enriched in everything unto all, i.é., all kinds of, liberality, which worketh through us (he goes on in the next verse to explain how this is) thanksgiving unto God; cf. 1. τε, iv. 15.
Vv. 12-15. LIBERAL GIVING WILL CALL FORTH THE BLESSINGS OF THE RECIPIENTS.—Ver. 12. ὅτι ἡ διακ. τῆς λειτ. κ.τ.λ.;: for the ministration of this service (λειτουργία, which originally stood for any public service, came to be restricted to the service of God; λειτουρ- yéw is used in Rom. xv. 27 of this very contribution ; cf. Num. vili. 22, Heb. viii. 6, ix. 21) is not only filling up (note the constr. ἐστι with a participle) the wants of the saints, but is abounding also through many thanksgivings unto God (cf. iv. 15).