while they long for you and pray for you, because of the surpassing grace of God upon you.
14. And their prayer He omits no advantage which may be of any use for stirring up the Corinthians. “Qui puisse seruir a esmouuoir et encourager les Corinthtens.” — “That may serve to stir up and encourage the Corinthians.” In the first place, he has made mention of the comfort that believers would experience; secondly, the thanksgiving, by means of which God was to be glorified.
Give bountifully, for the harvest is proportioned to the seed. Give deliberately, with thought and design, not hastily under pressure. Give freely, not squeezed from you by the importunity of others, but from a willing heart that draws itself out to the hungry.
AI summary
Commenting on 2 Corinthians 9:6-15
And by their prayer for you,.... The sense is, they glorify God on your behalf, making mention of you in all their prayers at the throne of grace, giving thanks to God for your liberality to them, and imploring all the blessings both of the upper and nether springs upon you; and this contains another argument engaging the Corinthians to liberality, taken from the prayers...