2 Corinthians 9:15 - Exposition

Thanks be unto God. Nothing ever seems so much to disburden the full heart of St. Paul after deep emotion as an utterance of thanksgiving ( Romans 7:25 ; Romans 9:5 ; Romans 11:33 ; 1 Corinthians 15:57 ; Galatians 1:5 ; 1 Timothy 1:17 ). The thanksgiving here is like a great sigh of relief. The subject of it is perfectly general. It is not a mere "Amen" uttered, as it were, by St. Paul at the end of the thanksgivings of the saints at Jerusalem which he has been presupposing; but an offering of thanks to God for the issues of grace in general, all summed up in one act of "inestimable love" ( John 3:16 ; Romans 6:23 ; Romans 11:33 ; Ephesians 3:19 ).