2Cor 4:5, 15 | JFB | STEP | 5. For-- Their blindness is not our fault, as if we had self-seeking aims in our preaching. preach ... Christ ... the Lord-- rather, "Christ as Lord," and ourselves as your servants, &c. "Lord," or "Master," is the correlative term to "servants."

‏ 2 Corinthians 4:5

5. For--Their blindness is not our fault, as if we had self-seeking aims in our preaching.

preach ... Christ ... the Lord--rather, "Christ as Lord," and ourselves as your servants, &c. "Lord," or "Master," is the correlative term to "servants."

‏ 2 Corinthians 4:15

15. For--Confirming his assertion "with you" (2Co 4:14), and "life ... worketh in you" (2Co 4:12).

all things--whether the afflictions and labors of us ministers (2Co 4:8-11), or your prosperity (2Co 4:12; 1Co 3:21, 22; 4:8-13).

for your sakes--(2Ti 2:10).

abundant grace, &c.--rather, "That grace (the grace which preserves us in trials and works life in you), being made the greater (multiplied), by means of the greater number (of its recipients), may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God." [Chrysostom] (2Co 1:11; 9:11, 12). The Greek is susceptible also of this translation, "That grace, being made the greater (multiplied) on account of the thanksgiving of the greater number (for grace already received), may abound (abundantly redound) to," &c. Thus the Greek for "abound" has not to be taken in an active sense, but in its ordinary neuter sense, and so the other Greek words. Thanksgiving invites more abundant grace (2Ch 20:19-22; Psa 18:3; 50:23).