Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.
Ver. 2. Upon the first day] The Christian sabbath, the Lord's day, as the Greek scholiast well renders it; which to sanctify was in the primitive times a badge of Christianity. When the question was propounded, Servasti Dominicum? Hast thou kept the Lord's day? The answer was returned, Christianus sum; intermittere non possum, I am a Christian, I can do no less than keep the Lord's day. But the world is now grown perfectly profane (saith Dr King, on Jonah, Lect. 7), and can play on the Lord's day without book; the sabbath of the Lord, the sanctified day of his rest, is shamelessly troubled and disquieted.
Lay by him in store] Gr. as a treasure, 1 Timothy 6:18. Manus pauperum gazophylacium Christi, The poor man's box is Christ's treasury.
As God hath prospered him] Gr. ευοδωται, Given him a good arrival at the end of his voyage, and enabled him; for we may not stretch beyond the staple, and so spoil all.