“For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.”
For I know your eagerness to help, and I have been boasting about it to the Macedonians, saying that since last year you in Achaia were ready to give; and your enthusiasm has stirred most of them to action — the Corinthians' *prothumía*, readiness and desire, and *spoude*, earnest care, operate recursively: Corinthian readiness *stirred* (*erethízō*) Macedonian zeal. Grace generates grace; generosity begets generosity. Paul uses rivalry as a tool of the Spirit.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 9:2
Though he had said so much about it, he says here, “It is superfluous for me to write to you.” And his wisdom is shown not only in this, that though he had said so much about it, he says, “it is superfluous for me to write to you,” but in that he yet again speaks of it. For what he said indeed a little above, he said concerning those who received the money, to ensure them the enjoyment of great honor: but what he said before that, (his account of the Macedonians, that “their…
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