But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
His promise is that “my God will supply every need of yours,” that God himself might stand ready to help them receive all that he has provided for them in the abundant greatness of his glory in Christ Jesus. It is indeed the glory of Jesus Christ when by the will of God the desires of Christians are fulfilled in accordance with the teaching of the gospel.
May God supply all your want. Ver. 19. Omne desiderium vest rum; the common Greek copies, chreian; though some epithumian; some charan, gaudium; and some pharin, gratiam.
Behold how he invokes blessings upon them, as poor men do. But if even Paul blesses those who give, much more let us not be ashamed to do this when we receive. Let us not receive as though we ourselves had need, let us not rejoice on our own account, but on that of the givers. Thus we too who receive shall have a reward, if we rejoice for their sake. Thus we shall not take it hardly, when men do not give, but rather shall grieve for their sake. So shall we render them more zealous, if we teach them, that not for our own sake do we so act; but may my God fulfill every need of yours, or every grace, or every joy. If the second be true, every grace, he means not only the alms, which are of earth, but every excellency. If the first, your every need, which I think too should rather be read, this is what he means to show. As he had said, ye lacked opportunity, he here makes an addition, as he does in the Epistle to the Corinthians, saying, And He that supplies seed to the sower, may He suppl...
They were artisans and paupers. They had wives, reared children and owned houses. They had given these gifts freely from their small means. There was nothing absurd in praying that such people so situated should have sufficiency and plenty. He does not ask God to make them rich or affluent. He asks only that God may “supply their every need”—so they will not be in want but will have what they need. .
