τοῦ θεοῦ is omitted after δῶρα by אBLX, &c.

4. οὗτοι. The word is not exactly contemptuous as it often is (see Luke 7:39; Luke 15:30), but still it has the depreciatory effect often conveyed by a pronoun being used δεικτικῶς, i.e. by substituting a gesture for a description.

ἐκ τοῦ περισσεύοντος αὐτοῖς. ‘Out of their overplus.’ The essence of charity is self-denial.

εἰς τὰ δῶρα. Not “into their gifts” (quae donarent, Beza) but ‘unto the gifts’ of the treasury.

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