2 Corinthians 8:13 (WEB)
For this is not that others may be eased and you distressed,
Catechism · 1
“In the Beatitudes "poverty" is the virtue of sharing: it calls us to communicate and share both material and spiritual goods, not by coercion but out of love, so that the abundance of some may remedy the needs of others.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 2 Cor 8:1-15.
Fathers and councils · 6
Jerome
“I was wrong, I admit; but when I saw her so profuse in giving, I reproved her alleging the apostle’s words: “I mean not that other men be eased and ye burthened; but by an equality that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. viii. 13, 14.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For we provide for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. viii. 1–21
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Ambrose of Milan
“Wherefore he also urges us on to perfection, saying: “Now, therefore, perform the doing of it; that as the will to do it was ready enough in you, so also there may be the will to accomplish it out of that which ye have.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. viii. 11–15.
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Gregory the Great
“…other men be eased, and ye burdened, but by an equality, that your abundance may supply their want, and that their abundance may be a supply to your want (Ibid. viii. 13, 14).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
““But if there be present readiness of mind, according to what a man hath it is acceptable, and not according to what he hath not: for it is not that there be ease to others, but tribulation to you, but of equality at the present time,” and so forth.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. viii. 12, 13, 14.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In the second Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: “If there be a ready will, it is acceptable according to what a man hath, not according to that which he hath not; nor let there be to others a mitigation, but to you a burdening.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. viii. 12, 13.
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