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2 Corinthians 8 is the eighth chapter of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Timothy (2 Corinthians 1:1) in Macedonia in 55–56 CE. [1] This chapter, and the next one, "are devoted entirely to the topic of generous giving". [2]
It is understood by Western Christians to be a spontaneous gift from God to people – "generous, free and totally unexpected and undeserved" [2] – that takes the form of divine favor, love, clemency, and a share in the divine life of God. [3] In the Eastern Orthodox Church, grace is the uncreated Energies of God.
By this translation this verse can be read as a condemnation of all overt religiosity. Other manuscripts have Greek: τὴν ἐλεημοσύνην, tēn eleemosunēn, [1] which explicitly refers to alms giving. This restricts what this verse is condemning to the more specific practice of overt generosity.
The phrase Deus caritas est from 1 John 4:8—or Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν (Theos agapē estin) in the original Greek [4] is translated in the King James Version as: "God is love", and in the Douay-Rheims bible as: "God is charity" ().
The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary: Modern English 2018 Masoretic Text: Robert Alter's translation of the Hebrew Bible Holman Christian Standard Bible: HCSB Modern English 2004 Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, Novum Testamentum Graece 27th Edition, United Bible Societies 4th Edition. Southern Baptist: The Inclusive Bible Modern ...
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges notes that this was "the very least the slave could have done, [as] to make money in this way required no personal exertion or intelligence", [16] and Johann Bengel commented that the labour of digging a hole and burying the talent was greater than the labour involved in going to the bankers. [17]
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