Gēlínduōhòushū 9:3

3 Dàn wǒ dǎfa nà jǐ wèi dìxiōng qù , yào jiào nǐmen zhào wǒde huà yùbeì tuǒdàng . miǎndé wǒmen zaì zhè shì shang kuājiǎng nǐmen de huà luò le kōng .

Gēlínduōhòushū 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.

Gēlínduōhòushū 9:3 In-Context

1 Lùn dào gōngjǐ shèngtú de shì , wǒ bú bì xiĕ xìn gĕi nǐmen .

2 Yīnwei wǒ zhīdào nǐmen lèyì de xīn , cháng duì Mǎqídùn rén kuājiǎng nǐmen , shuō yà gāi yà rén yùbeì hǎo le , yǐjing yǒu yī nián le . bìngqiĕ nǐmen de rèxīn jīdòng le xǔduō rén .

3 Dàn wǒ dǎfa nà jǐ wèi dìxiōng qù , yào jiào nǐmen zhào wǒde huà yùbeì tuǒdàng . miǎndé wǒmen zaì zhè shì shang kuājiǎng nǐmen de huà luò le kōng .

4 Wàn yī yǒu Mǎqídùn rén yǔ wǒ tóng qù , jiàn nǐmen méiyǒu yùbeì , jiù jiào wǒmen suǒ què xìn de , fǎn chéng le xiūkuì . nǐmen xiūkuì , gèng búyòng shuō le .

5 Yīncǐ wǒ xiǎng bùdé bù qiú nà jǐ wèi dìxiōng , xiān dào nǐmen nàli qù , bǎ cóng qián suǒ yīngxǔ de juān zī , yùbeì tuǒdàng , jiù xiǎn chū nǐmen suǒ juān de , shì chūyú lèyì , bu shì chūyú miǎnqiǎng .