George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
2 Corinthians 9:5
Not forced from covetousness. Literally, not as avarice, as it were extorted from covetous people, who give unwillingly. (Witham)
Not forced from covetousness. Literally, not as avarice, as it were extorted from covetous people, who give unwillingly. (Witham)
Verse 2 Corinthians 9:5. _WHEREOF YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE_] Instead of προκατηγγελμενην, _spoken of before_, BCDEFG, several others, with the _Coptic, Vulgate, Itala_, and several of the _fathers_, have...
THEREFORE I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY ... - In order to secure the collection, and to avoid all unpleasant feeling on all hands. THAT THEY WOULD GO BEFORE UNTO YOU - Before I should come. AND MAKE UP BEFO...
2. EXHORTATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT. CHAPTER 9 _ 1. Further Exhortations to Liberality. (2 Corinthians 9:1)_ 2. The Blessings Connected with Giving. (2 Corinthians 9:6 .) Again he exhorts them to libe...
2 Corinthians 9:1. On the general subject, the obligation to provide assistance for God's people, there is no need for Paul to write to the Corinthians. They have already acknowledged that obligation,...
It is superfluous for me to write to you about this service designed to help God's dedicated people, for I know your eagerness, about which I have boasted for you to the Macedonians, for I have told t...
THE WILLING GIVER (2 Corinthians 9:1-5)...
EXHORT. Greek _parakaleo._ App-134. UNTO. Gr _. eis_. App-10. MAKE UP BEFOREHAND. Greek. _prokatartizo._ Only here. Compare App-125. BOUNTY. blessing, Greek. _eulogia._ Translated "blessing" eleven...
_the brethren_ i.e. those mentioned in the last chapter. _go before_ i.e. before the Apostle. _your bounty, whereof ye had notice before_ Rather, according to the best MSS., -your PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCE...
5. The threefold προ- is doubtless intentional: he insists that all must be ready before he arrives. Comp. 2 Corinthians 13:2 and the repetition of πᾶς in 2 Corinthians 9:8. ΠΡΟΕΠΗΓΓΕΛΜΈΝΗΝ. AFORE-PRO...
1–5. The assistance to be rendered to the three delegates. What the Corinthians have to give should be collected soon, so as to be ready when S. Paul arrives....
_SOW BOUNTIFULLY AND REAP ALSO BOUNTIFULLY 2 CORINTHIANS 9:5-7:_ God's desire for our giving is that it be both willing and bountiful. Christians should give because they want to, and not because they...
ΑΝΑΓΚΑΊΟΣ (G316) необходимый, нужный. ΉΓΗΣΆΜΗΝ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΉΓΈΟΜΑΙ (G2233) считать, ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) просить, молить, побуждать, ΠΡΟΈΛΘΩΣΝΝ _aor. conj...
WHEREOF YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE— _Which had been spoken of before,_ namely, to the Macedonian Christians, 2 Corinthians 9:2. The word πλεονεξιαν, rendered _covetousness,_ signifies a kind of force, by wh...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 4 Compulsion (2 Corinthians 9:1-7) 9 Now it is superfluous for me to write to you about the offering for the saints, -for I know your readiness, of which I boast about yo...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Ministering To The Saints Scripture_ 2 Corinthians 9:1-5. For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: 2 for I know your readiness, o...
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matte...
5 God has no need. Gifts acceptable to Him must spring from a pure motive is better not to give at all than to give with a heavy heart or from an unworthy motive. Extortion, whether by appeals to prid...
9:5 blessing, (a-21) 'Blessing.' The sense is plain, though the word is unusual. I note it in view of verse 6. It is the spirit in which a man gives. as God gives, freely to bless, so ought we. and su...
_(C) 9:1-15. EXHORTATIONS TO GENEROUS GIVING_ There is no need to write to you about the purpose and necessity of the collection, for your zeal in the matter is well known, and has been used by me as...
YOUR BOUNTY, WHEREOF YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE] RV 'your aforepromised bounty.' BOUNTY, AND NOT.. COVETOUSNESS] He desired their gift to be ready before he came, that it might be evident to the delegates...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 9 V1 I do not really need to write to you about help for other Christians. V2 I know how eager you are to help. I have to...
THEREFORE I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY... — The brethren were to go before St. Paul, so as to get all things ready for his arrival. There were to be no hurried and unsatisfactory collections then. YOUR BOUN...
ἀναγκαῖον οὖν ἡγησάμην κ. τ. λ.: _therefore, sc._, because of the reason in 2 Corinthians 9:4, _I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren_ (inasmuch as two of these “brethren” were not chosen by S...
HE IS CONFIDENT OF THEIR READINESS TO GIVE; BUT TITUS AND HIS COMPANIONS HAVE BEEN SENT ON, THAT THE COLLECTION MAY BE READY WHEN HE ARRIVES AT CORINTH....
“GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER” 2 Corinthians 9:1 Paul evidently had considerable anxiety about the collection at Corinth for the starving saints at Jerusalem. He had started the idea, not merely becau...
In concluding this subject of the collection for the saints the apostle declares that he desires that their giving should be glad and spontaneous. He excludes two methods of giving, "grudgingly," that...
VERSE 5 Thus, the brethren were sent ahead of Paul that the Corinthians could give freely rather than feeling pressured into giving because they feared Paul's rebuke. Aa gift freely given is the only...
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as [a matte...
(1) For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you: (2) For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was...
2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
5._As a blessing, not in the way of niggardliness _In place of _blessing, _some render it _collection. _I have preferred, however, to render it literally, as the Greeks employed the term εὐλογίας to e...
In the next Chapter the apostle (being on his way to Judea) exhorts the Corinthians to prepare relief for the poor of Israel; sending Titus that all might be ready as of a willing mind a disposition o...
THEREFORE I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO EXHORT THE BRETHREN,.... Titus, and the other two, on whom he did not lay his commands, or apostolical injunctions, according to the authority and dignity of his of...
Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as _a matte...
_Yet have I sent the brethren_ Above mentioned before me; _lest our boasting of you should be in vain_ Lest you should be found unprepared. To _make up beforehand_ To complete before my arrival; _your...
GO BEFORE; before he went himself, accompanied by others of Macedonia. BOUNTY-NOT AS OF COVETOUSNESS; as a freewill-offering, not as if extorted by importunity....
THEREFORE I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY TO EXHORT THE BRETHREN THAT THEY WOULD GO BEFORE UNTO YOU AND MAKE UP BEFOREHAND YOUR BOUNTY, WHEREOF YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE, THAT THE SAME MIGHT BE READY, AS A MATTER O...
The gifts of Christians should be measured by the greatness of their love toward God:...
Paul does not stress the rightness of their ministering to the saints: this would be superfluous, for of this they were already persuaded, and so expressed themselves, so that Paul had boasted to the...
BOUNTY: _ Gr._ blessing WHEREOF YE HAD NOTICE BEFORE: Or, which hath been so much spoken of before...
1-5 When we would have others do good, we must act toward them prudently and tenderly, and give them time. Christians should consider what is for the credit of their profession, and endeavour to ador...
OLBGrk;OLBHeb; This was the cause why I judged it reasonable to send the three brethren, before mentioned, unto you, that they might make up your bounty; prokatartiswsi, not so much to move, quicken,...
I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand [i. e., before my coming] _your afore-promised bounty, that the same might be ready...
2 Corinthians 9:5 Therefore G3767 thought G2233 (G5662) necessary G316 exhort G3870 (G5658) brethren G80 to G2443
‘I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before to you, and make up beforehand your previously promised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty,...
FURTHER REASONS WHY THEY SHOULD REVEAL THEIR GENEROSITY (2 CORINTHIANS 9:1). It is often noted that this chapter appears to repeat to some extent the ideas in chapter 8, yet from a different angle, an...
2 Corinthians 9:5. I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY, THEREFORE, TO ENTREAT THE BRETHREN, THAT THEY WOULD GO BEFORE UNTO YOU, AND MAKE UP BEFORE - HAND YOUR AFORE-PROMISED BOUNTY (_Gr._ ‘blessing') your collecti...
I THOUGHT (εγησαμην). Epistolary aorist again. See Philippians 2:25 for the expression here.GO BEFORE (προελθωσιν). Second aorist active of προερχομα. Go to you before I come.MAKE UP BEFOREHAND...
CONTENTS: Offering for the Jerusalem saints. Encouragement for givers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: Our return in blessings will be proportionate to what we sow. Let our works of charit...
2 Corinthians 9:1. _Touching the ministering to the saints_ in Judea, _it is superfluous for me to write to you._ What a method of finding the avenues of the heart. He knew their forwardness he had bo...
SO I THOUGHT IT NECESSARY. Paul seems to be saying that they have wasted too much time already! BECAUSE YOU WANT TO. It is important that this be a gift out of their free will, not something they are...
_As touching the ministering to the saints._ LIBERAL GIVING I. Why does God call us to give? 1. He cannot need our gifts. We can give Him nothing that we did not first get from Him. 2. It must be s...
CHAPTER 9 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. He proceeds to stimulate the Corinthians to almsgiving by motives of human shame and praise; he bids them not to be put to shame before the liberality of the Mac...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 2 Corinthians 9:1—Connected, in word [περί, in both cases] and in fact, with 1 Corinthians 15:1, which belongs to the initiation of this “collection,” this “ministration” for the poor...
EXPOSITION Encouragement to the Corinthians to fulfil their promises by giving speedily (2 Corinthians 9:1), amply (2 Corinthians 9:6), cheerfully (2 Corinthians 9:7), and thereby earn God'
Shall we turn in our Bibles to II Corinthians, chapter nine. Paul has been, in the last couple of Chapter s, talking to them about the collection that he wanted them to take for the poor in Jerusalem....
1 Corinthians 16:2; 1 Samuel 25:27; 1 Samuel 30:26; 2 Corinthians 8:6;...
Go before. Notice the thrice repeated before, emphasizing the injunction to have everything ready before Paul's arrival. Make up beforehand [π ρ ο κ α τ α ρ τ ι σ ω σ ι ν]. Adjust. See on Matthew 4:21...
Spoken of before — By me, to the Macedonians. Not as a matter of covetousness — As wrung by importunity from covetous persons....