Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

2 Corinthians 8:15

καθὼς γέγραπται κ. τ. λ.: as it is written, sc., in the words of Scripture, “ He that gathered (we must understand σύλλεξας from Exodus 16:17) much had nothing over; and he that gathered little had no lack,” sc., because each gathered enough manna for his own needs and no more. That each Christian Church may have enough for its necessities, not its luxuries, is what St. Paul contemplates as desirable and possible by mutual generosity in giving. The true text (ABF) of the LXX in Exodus 16:18 has τὸ ἔλαττον for τὸ ὀλίγον, which however is found as an early correction in A [65], and also in Philo.

[65]A Codex Alexandrinus (sæc. v.), at the British Museum, published in photographic facsimile by Sir E. M. Thompson (1879).

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2 Corinthians 8:15

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