2 Corintios 9:3

3 Pero he enviado a los hermanos para que nuestra jactancia acerca de vosotros no sea hecha vana en este caso, a fin de que, como decía, estéis preparados;

2 Corintios 9:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 9:3

Yet have I sent the brethren
Titus, and the other two mentioned in the foregoing chapter: one manuscript reads, "we have sent"; and the Ethiopic version, "they have sent", that is, the Macedonians; but the common reading is best. It might be objected, that since the apostle knew the forwardness of their minds, how ready they were a year ago, and had boasted so much of their liberality, that it must be unnecessary to send the brethren to them, to stir them up to this work; which objection is prevented by observing the reason of his sending them:

lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf:
or, "in this part", in this particular thing, (atwbu adh le) , "concerning this business", or affair of beneficence to the poor, as the Syriac version renders it. He had boasted of them with respect to other things besides this; but he was chiefly concerned, knowing the frailty and changeableness of human nature, and how possible it was that their forwardness might abate, and they grow cold and indifferent to such service, lest his glorying of them should be in vain in this particular instance; wherefore he sent the brethren to put them on, that as they had begun they would finish:

that as I said ye may be ready,
That as he had said to the Macedonians, that they were ready in mind, it might appear to be so; or as he had ordered them in his former epistle, they might be actually ready; have their collection ready made, so that there might be no gathering when he came.

2 Corintios 9:3 In-Context

1 Porque me es por demás escribiros acerca de este servicio a los santos;

2 pues conozco vuestra buena disposición, de la que me glorío por vosotros ante los macedonios, es decir, que Acaya ha estado preparada desde el año pasado; y vuestro celo ha estimulado a la mayoría de ellos.

3 Pero he enviado a los hermanos para que nuestra jactancia acerca de vosotros no sea hecha vana en este caso, a fin de que, como decía, estéis preparados;

4 no sea que algunos macedonios vayan conmigo y os encuentren desprevenidos, y nosotros (por no decir vosotros) seamos avergonzados por esta confianza.

5 Así que creí necesario exhortar a los hermanos a que se adelantaran en ir a vosotros, y prepararan de antemano vuestra generosa ofrenda, ya prometida, para que la misma estuviera lista como ofrenda generosa, y no como por codicia.