“It is true that giving should not cause hardship to the givers. But at the same time, a person ought not to keep more than he needs for himself.”
Ambrosiaster, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
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13For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:
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11Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.
12For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
— 2 Corinthians 8:13 —
14But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:
15As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.