“Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:”
But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you in this matter should not prove hollow, but that you may be ready, as I said you would be — Paul's *kaúchēsis*, boasting, commits him to honesty; the Corinthians' fulfillment validates apostolic authority. A false boast would undermine the gospel itself. Truth-telling and grace interpenetrate.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 9:3
“For this cause have I sent the brethren that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void.” Do you see that he is in anxiety and terror, lest he should seem to have said what he said only for exhortation's sake? 'But because so it is,' says he, “I have sent the brethren;” 'so earnest am I on your behalf,' “that our glorying may not be made void.” And he appears to make himself of the Corinthians' party throughout, although caring for all alike. What he says is this; 'I…
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