2 CORINTHIANS 9:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.”
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! — *anekdiēgētos* (inexpressible/beyond speech) gift: Christ himself, the Incarnation and Atonement, the *paradigm* of all genuine generosity. The collection is the *response* to this surpassing gift. Gratitude to God frames and motivates all human giving. Paul's doxology brings the collection theology full circle: from grace to generosity to thanksgiving.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 9:15
“Thanks be to God for His unspeakable gift.” And here he calls “gift,” even those so many good things which are wrought by almsgiving, both to them that receive and them that give; or else, those unspeakable good things which through His advent He gave unto the whole world with great munificence, which one may suspect to be the most probable. For that he may at once both sober, and make them more liberal, he puts them in mind of the benefits they had received from God. For…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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