2 CORINTHIANS 12:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.”
So I will very gladly spend for you all I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less? — Paul's commitment is *ekdapanáō*, spend entirely, and *ekpsykhō*, expend himself utterly, for the Corinthians. The *implicit question* is *devastating*: does their love *diminish* as his *increases*? *Love's asymmetry* reveals hearts.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 12:15
“I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls.” 'For the law of nature indeed has commanded the parents to lay up for the children; but I do not do this only, but I give myself also besides.' And this lavishness of his, the not only not receiving, but giving also besides, is not in common sort but accompanied with great liberality, and out of his own want; for the words, “I will be spent,” are of one who would imply this. 'For should it be necessary to spend my very…
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