2 Corinthians 8:14 (WEB)
but for equality. Your abundance at this present time supplies their lack, that their abundance also may become a supply for your lack, that there may be equality.
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 · 11
Jerome
“…day and night, and have no father upon earth except the Lord alone, may be cherished by the aid of the synagogues and of the whole world; that there may be equality—not that some may be refreshed while others are in distress, but that the abundance of some may support the need of others.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. viii. 14.
Read the whole comment“Your abundance has supported the want of many that some day their riches may abound to supply your want; you have made to yourself “friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that they may receive you into everlasting habitations.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. viii. 14.
Read the whole comment“He did not once for all cast away his brethren, as did the apostles who forsook father and nets and ship, but by an equality he ministered to the want of others out of his own abundance that afterwards their wealth might be a supply for his own want.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. viii. 14.
Read the whole comment“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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Gregory the Great
“Paul the apostle also says, Let your abundance supply their want, that their abundance also may be a supply to your want (2 Cor. viii. 14).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…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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John Chrysostom
“Which kind of thing Paul also said: “That 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. 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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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
“Of this same thing also in the second Epistle to the Corinthians: “Let your abundance supply their want, that their abundance also may be the supplement of your want, that there may be equality: as it is written, He who had much had not excess; and he who had little had no lack.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. viii. 14, 15.
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.17.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.17.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII VII.17.