“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.
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