That their abundance — If need should so require. May be — At another time. A supply to your want: that there may be an equality — No want on one side, no superfluity on the other. It may likewise have a further meaning: — that as the temporal bounty of the Corinthians did now supply the temporal wants of their poor brethren in Judea, so the prayers of these might be a means of bringing down many spiritual blessings on their benefactors: so that all the spiritual wants of the one might be amply supplied; all the temporal of the other.
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2 Corinthians 8:14
14 But 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: