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2 Corinthians 8:5

5 And this is beyond what we had hoped, since they gave themselves, first of all to the Lord, and then also to us, through the will of God, ^{▼▼8:5Paul says ‘non sicut speravimus,’ which would seem to indicate that the situation was not what he had hoped it would be. But the meaning here is that the situation was much better than what he had hoped, hence ‘beyond’ rather than ‘not.’(Conte)}