Verse 9
And when I was present with you and was in want, I was not a burden on any man; for the brethren, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my want; and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.
See my comment under the preceding verse.
When they came from Macedonia ... These were in all probability Silas and Timothy. Based upon the record in Acts 15:40 and Acts 16:1ff, and upon inferences from 1 Thessalonians 3:1, those were the two men referred to here, but not by name, as the Corinthians already knew who had come from Macedonia. Even this bounty only supplemented Paul's earnings as a tent maker.
I was not a burden on any man ... The word here translated "burden" is a medical term derived from the name of a certain kind of fish listed by Aristotle, a creature which benumbed people who came in contact with it. Its being in the vocabulary of physicians has led to the supposition that "Paul may have derived it from Luke."[33]
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