9. Your wealth, you well know, all that you really have, that is to say, is yours because Christ Jesus abandoned the world;
10. the way he gave up all has brought you great riches, and now is the time to show how genuine is the love which has been opened to you.
15. “He that gathered little had no lack, and he that gathered much had nothing over” (Ex. xvi. 18).
20. I praise God for this arrangement which met my own wishes in the matter.
21. I seek “favour and a good understanding in the sight of God and man” (Prov. iii. 4), and I am glad the churches have elected so well-known a man to help me, for the outsiders are sure to criticise my administration of this bounty.