Philippians 4:17

17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

Ver. 17. Not because I desire a gift ] As those cormorants that "with shame do love, Give ye," Hosea 4:18 , as if they could speak no other but the Doric dialect, the horse leech’s language. St Paul was none of these.

That may abound to your account ] For God keeps an exact account of every penny laid out upon him and his, that he may require it; and his retributions are more than bountiful.