“Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.”
So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to visit you in advance and finish the arrangements for the generous gift you had promised. Then it will be ready as a generous gift, not as one grudgingly given — the collection must be *eulogia*, a blessing, not *pleonerksía*, grasping avarice. The word *eulogia* etymologically means fine words, but here it means generous, magnanimous giving. Generosity is blessing itself.
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