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2Co_8:1. The δέ is the mere μεταβατικόν , leading over to a new topic in the Epistle. Comp. 1Co_7:1; 1Co_8:1; 1Co_12:1; 1Co_15:1.
τὴν χάριν τ . θεοῦ τὴν δεδομ . κ . τ . λ .] the grace of God, which is given in the churches of Macedonia, i.e. how graciously God has wrought in the churches of Macedonia, inasmuch as He (see 2Co_8:2) called forth in them so great liberality. Comp. 2Co_9:14. The expression rests on the idea, that such excellent dispositions and resolves are produced and nourished, not by independent spontaneity, but by the grace of God working on us (operationes gratiae). Comp. Php_2:13. Paul, therefore, does not think of the grace of God as shown to himself (Origen, Erasmus, who paraphrases it: “quemadmodum adfuerit mihi Deus in ecclesiis Maced.;” comp. Zachariae, Emmerling, Billroth, Wieseler, Chronol. p. 357 ff.; also Rückert, yet with hesitation),—in which case he could not but have added ἐμοί or ἡμῖν , in order to make himself understood,—but, on the contrary, as granted to the liberal churches, working in them the communicative zeal of love, so that the construction with ἐν is quite as in 2Co_8:16; 2Co_1:22.