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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John Chrysostom
AD 407
The affliction of the Macedonians did not lead only to sorrow but also to great rejoicing and generosity. Paul said this in order to prepare the Corinthians to be noble and firm in their sufferings. For they were not merely to be afflicted, they were to use their afflictions as a means of growing in joy.
