How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Poverty hath abounded The sense seems to be, that in their great poverty, they showed the riches of their simplicity, that is, of a sincere, willing, and charitable heart. (Witham)