5 Therefore I thought it necessary to urge these brothers to go to you in advance and to arrange ahead of time the generous contribution you had promised, so this may be ready as a generous gift and not as something you feel forced to do.
5 I thought it necessary therefore to beg the brethren that they would come to you, and complete beforehand your fore-announced blessingD8476, that this may be ready thus as blessing, and not as got out of youD8477.
blessing - 'Blessing.' The sense is plain, though the word is unusual. I note it in view of verse 6. It is the spirit in which a man gives. as God gives, freely to bless, so ought we. and such as so give shall so reap from him. you - Or 'as covetousness,' from a verb signifying, along with the desire of having, an over-reaching to get.
5 Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bountyK6975, whereof ye had notice beforeK6976, that the same might be ready, as [a matter of] bounty, and not as [of] covetousness.
bounty: Gr. blessing. whereof ye had notice before: Or, which hath been so much spoken of before.
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