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luke 21:4 for they all out of their surplus put into the offering; but she out of her poverty put in all that she had to live on."

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      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.)

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