while you join in helping us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gift that came to us through the prayers of many.

Now we are writing nothing to you other than what you can read and also understand. I hope you will understand completely—

We are taking this precaution so no one can criticize us about this large sum administered by us.

For if I want to boast, I will not be a fool, because I will be telling the truth. But I will spare you, so that no one can credit me with something beyond what he sees in me or hears from me,