4. of their abundance--their superfluity; what they had to spare,"
or beyond what they needed.
of her penury--or "want"
(Mr 12:44)
--her deficiency, of what was less than her own wants
required, "all the living she had." Mark
(Mr 12:44)
still more emphatically, "all that she had--her whole subsistence."
Note: (1) As temple offerings are needed still for the
service of Christ at home and abroad, so "looking down" now, as then
"up," Me "sees" who "cast in," and how much. (2) Christ's
standard of commendable offering is not our superfluity, but our
deficiency--not what will never be missed, but what costs us some
real sacrifice, and just in proportion to the relative amount of that
sacrifice. (See
2Co 8:1-3.)
JFB.
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