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2Co_8:21. Ground of this precautionary measure. For our anxiety is directed to what is good, not merely before the Lord, not merely so that we set before us God in this way (Pro_3:4), but also before men. Comp. on Rom_12:17. Were it merely the former, we should not need such precautionary measures, since to God we πεφανερώμεθα , 2Co_5:11; but “propter alios fama necessaria est,” Augustine. The misuse of the latter consideration is guarded against by ἐνώπ . κυρίου .
προνοεῖν , prospicere, also in the active; comp. Plato, Clit. p. 408 E; Xen. Mem. ii. 10. 3; Aelian, V. H. ii. 21; Wis_6:7; Hesych.: προνοεῖ · ἐπιμελεῖται .
For analogous Rabbinical sayings, see Wetstein.