πλὴν καλῶς ἐποιήσατε. He is lovingly anxious lest his “ability in Christ” should even seem to blunt his gratitude to his friends, whose “deep poverty had abounded to the riches of their liberality” (2 Corinthians 8:1-2).

ἐποιήσατε. “Ye did”; when you sent your alms.

συνκοινωνήσαντες. “Unitedly sharing in.”—See above, Philippians 1:7.—Their practical sympathy, with its self-denial, blent their experience and that of the afflicted Apostle into one; and they were all of one mind (συν-) in so acting.

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