2 CORINTHIANS 8:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:”
At the present time your plenty will supply what they need, so that in turn their plenty will supply what you need. The goal is equality, as it is written: 'The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little' — Paul cites Exodus 16:18 (the manna): God supplies *equality* through divine provision. In the church, this principle operates through mutual material sharing. The collection is *euangelion*, gospel lived out in economics.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 8:14
“Your abundance being a supply for their want.” For not only by the words he has before used but by these also, he is desirous of making the commandment light. Nor yet from this consideration alone, but from that of the recompense also, again he makes it easier; and utters higher things than they deserve, saying, “That there may be equality at this time, and their abundance” a supply “for your want.” Now what is it that he says? 'You are flourishing in money; they in life…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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