Therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your bounty, whereof ye had notice before, that the same might be ready, as a matter of bounty, and not as of covetousness.
That they would go before. Translate, 'that they should,' etc.
Whereof ye had notice before, х proepeengelmeneen (G4279)]. But 'Aleph (') B C Delta, Vulgate, 'promised before;' 'long vouched for by me to the Macedonians' (2 Corinthians 9:2) (Bengel). 'Your promised bounty' (Ellicott, etc.) х eulogia (G2129)] - literally, blessing: it blesses both the receiver and the giver (Acts 20:35). Verbal blessing anciently used to accompany a gift.
Not as of covetousness - read х proepeengelmeneen (G4279)] which it would be if you gave niggardly.