For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich — this is Paul's *Christological foundation* for all generosity: the Incarnation and Cross are the supreme paradigm of *kenosis*, self-emptying. Christ's *hýparkhō* (eternal being) as *plousios*, rich in divine power and glory, becomes *ptōchia*, poverty, the state of absolute humiliation. The Corinthians' generosity imitates Christ's self-divestment and participates in the reversal of creation's values.

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