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 confession unto the gospel of Christ. The grammatical construction of this verse is somewhat irregular, and the sense of this clause not quite clear; but the import of it appears to be this: ‘They glorify God for the evidence which your liberality gives of the genuineness of your Christian “confession” or profession,'

and for the liberality of you contribution onto them and unto all; “for” (says Meyer) “by their beneficence towards the Jews, the Corinthians showed that they excluded no Christian from the sincere fellowship of love;”

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