3. ἔπεμψα δέ. This is the second point, the δέ of the μέν in 2Co 9:1. But I am sending (epistolary aorist, as in 2Co 8:17-18; 2Co 8:22) the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this particular (2Co 3:10), in the matter of the relief fund.