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2Co_9:15. At the close we have an exclamation of gratitude springing out of deep piety (comp. Rom_9:5; Rom_11:33 ff.; 1Co_15:57; Gal_1:5; 1Ti_1:17), without any special purpose (such as to awaken humility, Beza; comp. Chrysostom), but issuing out of the fuller craving of the heart, without being intended (as Hofmann holds) to impress the duty of willingly contributing gifts which are so small in comparison.
The δωρεά is consequence and evidence of the χάρις , 2Co_9:14. Comp. Rom_5:15; Rom_5:17.
ἐπὶ τῇ ἀνεκδιηγ . αὐτοῦ δωρεᾷ ] on account of his undescribable gift. What is meant by this is indicated to the Christian consciousness by ἀνεκδιηγ . (comp. Rom_11:33; Eph_3:18 f.), namely, the whole wonderful and inexpressibly blissful work of redemption. It is for this, and not simply for the grace imparted to the Gentiles (Hofmann), that Paul gives thanks, because it is the gracious foundation of such fellowship in love, and of its blissful working. Others[297] understand it of the previously discussed happy result of the work of collection (Calvin, Estius, Bengel, Billroth, Rückert, Osiander; comp. Ewald, who takes χάρις κ . τ . λ . as the quoted closing words of the prayer of gratitude on the part of the church at Jerusalem itself); but in that case ἈΝΕΚΔΙΉΓΗΤΟς appears to be much too strong an epithet, whereas it is quite suitable to the highest of all God’s gifts, the δωρεὰ κατʼ ἐξοχήν . Comp. Rom_5:15; Heb_6:4.
On ἈΝΕΚΔΙΗΓΉΤῼ , comp. Arrian, Anab. p 310: τὴν ἀνεκδιήγητον τόλμαν .
[297] To these belongs Grotius also, who in his acute way remarks: “Paulus in gratiarum actionem se illis in Judaea fratribus adjungit, et quasi Amen illis accinit.” Chrysostom and Theophylact quote both explanations, but incline more to that which we have adopted.