All Sufficiency in All Things at All Times: A Study of 2 Corinthians 8 and 9
This booklet is a detailed study of 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 with a focus on figures of speech, historical practices, and cultural idioms.
If you’ve ever read 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 and not understood its meaning, then welcome to the club! These chapters can be difficult to grasp if reading an older version of the Bible of if not familiar with the many figures of speech used.
Progressing through each chapter, verse by verse, this booklet starts with some background information about the collection mentioned in 1 Corinthians 16:1-3. It then considers the example of the Macedonians, and why Paul points them out as examples. Next, we discuss what difficult the phase “their deep poverty oveorflowed in the wealth of their liberality” means. The central focus of the study is on how Jesus Christ is THE example of all giving and receiving. Jesus Christ gave his life for the salvation of humankind, and the ROI of this act, so to speak is unfathomably high: eternal life is now available for all people to receive because of his perfect sacrifice.
Along the way, we discuss numerous figures of speech in these chapters including metonymy, metaphor, anadiplosis, and polyptoton.
The aim of this work is to heighten our appreciation of God’s design for the Church—having all sufficiency in all things at all times. (8.5” x 5.25”, 43 pages)
This booklet is a detailed study of 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 with a focus on figures of speech, historical practices, and cultural idioms.
If you’ve ever read 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 and not understood its meaning, then welcome to the club! These chapters can be difficult to grasp if reading an older version of the Bible of if not familiar with the many figures of speech used.
Progressing through each chapter, verse by verse, this booklet starts with some background information about the collection mentioned in 1 Corinthians 16:1-3. It then considers the example of the Macedonians, and why Paul points them out as examples. Next, we discuss what difficult the phase “their deep poverty oveorflowed in the wealth of their liberality” means. The central focus of the study is on how Jesus Christ is THE example of all giving and receiving. Jesus Christ gave his life for the salvation of humankind, and the ROI of this act, so to speak is unfathomably high: eternal life is now available for all people to receive because of his perfect sacrifice.
Along the way, we discuss numerous figures of speech in these chapters including metonymy, metaphor, anadiplosis, and polyptoton.
The aim of this work is to heighten our appreciation of God’s design for the Church—having all sufficiency in all things at all times. (8.5” x 5.25”, 43 pages)
This booklet is a detailed study of 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 with a focus on figures of speech, historical practices, and cultural idioms.
If you’ve ever read 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 and not understood its meaning, then welcome to the club! These chapters can be difficult to grasp if reading an older version of the Bible of if not familiar with the many figures of speech used.
Progressing through each chapter, verse by verse, this booklet starts with some background information about the collection mentioned in 1 Corinthians 16:1-3. It then considers the example of the Macedonians, and why Paul points them out as examples. Next, we discuss what difficult the phase “their deep poverty oveorflowed in the wealth of their liberality” means. The central focus of the study is on how Jesus Christ is THE example of all giving and receiving. Jesus Christ gave his life for the salvation of humankind, and the ROI of this act, so to speak is unfathomably high: eternal life is now available for all people to receive because of his perfect sacrifice.
Along the way, we discuss numerous figures of speech in these chapters including metonymy, metaphor, anadiplosis, and polyptoton.
The aim of this work is to heighten our appreciation of God’s design for the Church—having all sufficiency in all things at all times. (8.5” x 5.25”, 43 pages)