{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/vws/co1016.htm","path":"bib/cmt/vws/co1016.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/vws/co1016.htm","text":"Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent, [1886]\nCollection (\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03af\u03b1\u03c2)\nPeculiar to the New Testament, and occurring only here and Co1 16:2. The classical word is \u03c3\u03c5\u03bb\u03bb\u03cc\u03b3\u03b7, Vulg., collecta, which latter is also used of the assemblies in which the collections took place. From \u03bb\u03ad\u03b3\u03c9 to collect. For such material ministries Paul uses a variety of words; as \u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03b9\u03c2 bounty, Co1 16:3; \u03ba\u03bf\u03b9\u03bd\u03c9\u03bd\u03af\u03b1 contribution, Rom 15:26; \u03b5\u1f50\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03af\u03b1. blessing, Co2 9:5; \u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5\u03c0\u03b3\u03af\u03b1 ministration, Co2 9:12; \u1f10\u03bb\u03b5\u03b7\u03bc\u03bf\u03c3\u03cd\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 alms, Act 24:17. The word \u1f14\u03c1\u03b1\u03bd\u03bf\u03c2 was used by the Greeks to denote a feast of contribution or picnic; a club for mutual relief, and a contribution, made as a club-subscription, or for the support of the poor.\nThe saints\nAt Jerusalem. Evidently the community of property (Act 2:44) had been abandoned; and Augustine supposes that the poverty of the Jerusalem Christians was due to that practice. See note on Rom 15:26. The precise causes of the destitution in that church can be only conjectured.\nUpon the first day of the week (\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u1f70 \u03bc\u03af\u03b1\u03bd \u03c3\u03b1\u03b2\u03b2\u03ac\u03c4\u03bf\u03c5)\n\u039a\u03b1\u03c4\u1f70 has a distributive force, every first day. For week, lit., Sabbath, see on Act 20:7.\nLay by him in store (\u03c0\u03b1\u1fe4 \u1f11\u03b1\u03c5\u03c4\u1ff7 \u03c4\u03b9\u03b8\u03ad\u03c4\u03c9 \u03b8\u03b7\u03c3\u03b1\u03c5\u03c1\u03af\u03b6\u03c9\u03bd)\nLit., put by himself treasuring. Put by at home.\nAs God hath prospered (\u1f45 \u03c4\u03b9 \u1f02\u03bd \u03b5\u1f50\u03bf\u03b4\u1ff6\u03c4\u03b1\u03b9)\nLit., whatsoever he may prosper in. See on Rom 1:10; see on Jo3 1:2; and see on Act 11:29 for the verb \u03b5\u1f50\u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03ad\u03c9 in the similar sense of making a prosperous journey.\nNo gatherings, etc.\nRev., collections. The amount would be greater through systematic weekly saving than through collections made once for all on his arrival.\nWhen I am come (\u1f45\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd \u1f14\u03bb\u03b8\u03c9 \u03c4\u03cc\u03c4\u03b5)\nLit., then whenever I may have come. The indefinite whenever and the emphatic then indicate his unwillingness to rely upon a special contribution called forth by his arrival at any uncertain time. Christian beneficence is to be the outcome of a settled principle, not of an occasional impulse.\nApprove by your letters\nSo A.V. and Rev. Others, however, connect by letters with will I send, making the letters to be Paul's introduction to the church at Jerusalem. The latter is preferable. The givers are to choose the bearers of the collection; Paul, as the originator and apostolic steward of the collection, will send the money.\nMeet for me to go (\u1f04\u03be\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03c4\u03bf\u1fe6 \u03ba\u1f00\u03bc\u1f72 \u03c0\u03bf\u03c1\u03b5\u03cd\u03b5\u03c3\u03b8\u03b1\u03b9)\nLit., if it be worthy of my going, i.e., if the gift be sufficiently large to warrant an apostolic journey to Jerusalem. This is better than if it be becoming.\nGreat and effectual door\nDoor metaphorically for opportunity: great as to its extent; effectual as to the result. The figure of an effectual door, as it stands, is of course clumsy, but the idea as a whole is clear: a great opportunity for effective work.\nAchaia\nIn a restricted sense, the northwest of Peloponnesus; but often used by the poets for the whole of Greece. Under the Romans Greece was divided into two provinces, Macedonia and Achaia; the former including Macedonia proper, with Illyricum, Epirus, and Thessaly, and the latter all that lay south of these. In this latter acceptation the word is uniformly employed in the New Testament.\nThat which was lacking on your part (\u03c4\u1f78 \u1f51\u03bc\u03ad\u03c4\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf \u1f51\u03c3\u03c4\u03ad\u03c1\u03b7\u03bc\u03b1)\nOr the (i.e. my) lack of you. The Greek will bear either rendering. Compare Phi 2:30; Co2 8:14; Co2 9:12. The latter is preferable. Edwards, somewhat naively says: \"I do not see what could be lacking on the part of the Corinthians which Stephanas and his two friends could supply at Ephesus.\"\nAsia\nSee on Act 2:9.\nAquila and Prisca\nSee on Rom 16:3.\nMaran-atha\nNot to be joined with anathema as one phrase. Rev., properly, a period after anathema. Maranatha means the Lord cometh. It was a reminder of the second coming. The reason for the use of the Aramaic phrase is unknown. It is found in \"The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles,\" ch. x., at the conclusion of the post-communion prayer. Compare Rev 22:20.","title":"Vincent's Word Studies: 1 Corinthians: 1 Corinthians Chapter 16","type":"page"}