Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 20:35

35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak; and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

As verse 27.

With more than ordinary pains and constancy.

That they do not fall, or being fallen, that they may rise again. The word imports the stretching out of the hand to retain any that are going away, or to hold up any that are falling.

In Knowledge, Faith, or any other Grace.

Paul might have these words by the relation of others who heard them spoken by our Saviour; for all things that he said or did, could not be written, Ioh. 20.30.

Not so much in that giving speaks abundance and affluence; but as it shews our Charity and Goodness, in which we resemble and imitate God. The substance of these words which are attributed to our Saviour, tho not the terms, may be found in divers places, as Luke 6.38. and 16.9.

Marginal references: 1 Cor. 9.12. 2 Cor. 11.9. a[illegible: 1 letter]d 12.13.