I know how to be abased — Having scarce what is needful for my body. And to abound — Having wherewith to relieve others also. Presently after, the order of the words is inverted, to intimate his frequent transition from scarcity to plenty, and from plenty to scarcity. I am instructed — Literally, I am initiated in that mystery, unknown to all but Christians. Both to be full and to be hungry — For one day. Both to abound and to want — For a longer season.
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Philippians 4:12
12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.