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Always rejoicing (aei chairontes). Even in sorrow (2Co 11:9; 1Th 5:16; Rom 5:3-5; Rom 9:2; Phi 2:18, Phi 2:27; Phi 3:1; Phi 4:4, Phi 4:15).
Yet making many rich (pollous de ploutizontes). Old word from ploutos (wealth), to enrich. Spiritual riches Paul has in mind as in 1Co 1:5 (cf. Mat 5:37).
As having nothing and yet possessing all things (hōs mēden echontes kai panta katechontes). Contrast between mēden (nothing) and panta (all things, cf. 1Co 3:22) and echō (to have) and katechō (to hold down, to hold fast). Play on words (simple and compound) as in 2Co 3:2; 2Co 4:8. Climax of Paul’s panegyric on the Christian ministry. He now resumes the thread of the story broken off in 2Co 2:14.