2 CORINTHIANS 9:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)”
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness — Paul invokes Isaiah 55:10 (the Servant's word accomplishes its purpose), applying it to both *agricultural* metaphor and *spiritual reality*. God (*ho episkhoregeō*) provides both initial capital (seed) and ongoing supply. The harvest is *righteousness*, dikaiosynē, not mere material return.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 9:10
Herein one may particularly admire the wisdom of Paul, that after having exhorted from spiritual considerations and from temporal, in respect of the recompense also he again does the very same, making the returns he mentions of either kind. This, (for instance,) “He has scattered abroad, he has given to the poor, his righteousness abides for ever,” belongs to a spiritual return; that again, “multiply your seed for sowing,” to a temporal recompense. Still, however, he rests…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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