John Chrysostom : "While they themselves also with supplication." 'For in respect of these things,' saith he, 'they give thanks to God, but in respect of your love and your coming together, they beseech Him that they may be counted worthy to see you. For they long after this, not for the money's sake, but that they may be witnesses of the grace that hath been bestowed upon you.' Seest thou Paul's wisdom, how after having exalted them, he ascribed the whole to God by calling the thing "grace?" For seeing he had spoken great things of them, in that he called them ministers and exalted them unto a great height, (since they offered service whilst he himself did but administer,) and termed them 'proved,' he shows that God was the Author of all these things. — Homily 20 on 2 Corinthians Theodoret of Cyrus : The Corinthians will reap the benefit of the prayers of the poor. Those prayers come out of great love. — COMMENTARY ON THE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 336