17Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. …
For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.
And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. …
But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-17)Much of the communion between God and his people Israel was kept up, and a face of religion preserved in the nation, by the three yearly feasts, the institution of which, and the laws concerning them, we have several times met with already; and here they are repeated. I. The law of the passover, so great a solemnity that it made the whole month, in the midst of which it was placed, considerable: O…
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