8保罗在林后十章十五至十六节说,“我们不凭别人的劳碌过度夸口,但盼望随着你们信心的增长,照着我们的尺度,因着你们得以丰盛地扩大,将福音传到你们以外的地方,并不是在别人的尺度之内,凭现成的事夸口。”这里我们看见,使徒盼望随着哥林多信徒信心的增长,他们的职事借着丰盛的增大与增加,得以扩大(含称赞意),但仍是照着神所分给他们的度量。保罗盼望他在哥林多人中间,能照着神度量的限度而得以扩大。
8In verses 15 and 16 Paul says, “We are not boasting beyond our measure in others’ labors, but have the hope, as your faith is increasing, to be magnified in you according to our rule unto abundance, so that we may announce the gospel unto those parts beyond you, not so that we may boast in another man’s rule in things already prepared.” Here we see that the apostles had the hope that through the increase of the Corinthian believers’ faith, the apostles’ ministry would be magnified (in the sense of being praised) by being enlarged and increased abundantly, yet still according to the rule, the measure, that God had apportioned to them. Paul hoped to be magnified in the Corinthians according to the limit of God’s measuring.