And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
19 My God will supply Some read impleat — in the optative — May he supply. “Comme si c’estoit vn souhait que sainct Paul feist;” — “As if it were a wish that St. Paul expressed.” While I do not reject this reading, I approve more of the other.
In these verses we have the thankful grateful acknowledgment which the apostle makes of the kindness of the Philippians in sending him a present for his support, now that he was a prisoner at Rome. And here, I. He takes occasion to acknowledge their former kindnesses to him, and to make mention of them, Phi 4:15, Phi 4:16.
Commenting on Philippians 4:10-19
But my God shall supply all your need,.... Or "fulfil all your need": the Jews, when they would comfort any, under the loss of any worldly enjoyment, used to say, , "God fulfil", or "will fulfil thy need" (f). The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, read these words as a wish or prayer, "but may my God supply" or "fulfil all your need"; I...