2 Corinthians 9:2. FOR I KNOW YOUR READINESS, OF WHICH I GLORY ON YOUR BEHALF (2 CORINTHIANS 8:24), TO THEM OF MACEDONIA (writing as he was in Macedonia itself, he uses the present tense), THAT ACHAIA the whole province, but especially Corinth, the central church, HATH BEEN PREPARED FOR A YEAR PAST... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 9:3. BUT I HAVE SENT THE BRETHREN, THAT OUR GLORYING ON YOUR BEHALF MAY NOT BE MADE VOID IN THIS RESPECT (‘as if we had gone too far in commending your eagerness'); THAT, EVEN AS I SAID, YE MAY BE PREPARED: LEST BY ANY MEANS, IF THERE COME WITH ME ANY OF MACEDONIA, AND FIND YOU UNPREPA... [ Continue Reading ]
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 collection before promised by me, THAT THE SAME MIGHT BE READY, AS A MATTER OF BOUNTY, AND NOT OF EXTORTION.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 9:6. BUT THIS I SAY ‘Let this as a general principle be borne in mind,' HE THAT SOWETH SPARINGLY parsimoniously, grudgingly, SHALL REAP ALSO SPARINGLY; AND HE THAT SOWETH BOUNTIFULLY (_Gr_. ‘with blessings' his heart going along with his hand in wishing “blessings” on the objects of hi... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 9:7. _LET _ EACH MAN _DO _ ACCORDING AS HE HATH PURPOSED IN HIS HEART; NOT GRUDGINGLY (Gr. ‘of grief' or ‘sorrow' as being wrung from him, and pained to think of the sacrifice he has to make): FOR GOD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER. See on chap. 2 Corinthians 8:12. On the bearing of this on... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 9:8. AND GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND UNTO YOU. The words “all grace” here are used in the same limited sense as in chap. 8, that is, ‘every temporal blessing,' though “grace” in its higher sense is not excluded, THAT YE, HAVING ALWAYS ALL SUFFICIENCY IN EVERY THING, MAY ABOU... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 9:9. AS IT IS WRITTEN (Psalms 112:9), HE HATH SCATTERED ABROAD ‘a generous word' (says Bengel), ‘with a full hand, not anxiously thinking about the single grains;' HE HATH GIVEN TO THE POOR: HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS (in dispersing abroad of his means) ABIDETH FOR EVER enabling him always to... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 9:10. AND HE THAT SUPPLIETH SEED TO THE SOWER AND BREAD FOR FOOD, SHALL SUPPLY [1] AND MULTIPLY YOUR SEED FOR SOWING, AND INCREASE THE FRUITS OF YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. What 2 Corinthians 9:8 said that God was “able” to do, it is here said, He “will” do. [1] _The future_ here is clearly t... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 9:11. YE BEING ENRICHED IN EVERY THING UNTO ALL LIBERALITY (see on this word, 2 Corinthians 8:2), WHICH WORKETH THROUGH US (when we shall present it to the poor brethren at Jerusalem) THANKSGIVING TO GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 9:12. FOR THE MINISTRATION OF THIS SERVICE NOT ONLY FILLETH UP THE MEASURE OF THE WANTS OF THE SAINTS, BUT ABOUNDETH ALSO THROUGH MANY THANKSGIVINGS UNTO GOD; 2 Corinthians 9:13. SEEING THAT THROUGH THE PROVING _OF YOU _ BY THIS MINISTRATION, THEY GLORIFY GOD FOR THE OBEDIENCE OF YOUR... [ Continue Reading ]
2 Corinthians 9:14. WHILST THEY THEMSELVES ALSO, WITH SUPPLICATION ON YOUR BEHALF, LONG AFTER YOU BY REASON OF THE EXCEEDING GRACE OF GOD IN YOU; ‘Your generosity not only causes much thanksgiving to God, and prayer for you, but a yearning of heart towards you for the grace of God so eminently resti... [ Continue Reading ]
_The Gift of all Gifts._ 2 Corinthians 9:15. THANKS BE UNTO GOD FOR HIS UNSPEAKABLE GIFT. This exquisite and resistless outburst of thanksgiving for that gift, which not only transcends all our givings, but originates them all, is as sublime as it is suitable in closing the whole subject of this co... [ Continue Reading ]