Verse 13. For I mean not that other men be eased, etc. I do not intend that others should be eased in order to relieve you. Literally, |Not that there should be rest (anesiv, a letting loose, remission, relaxation) to others, but affliction (yliqiv) to you.| Probably the Corinthians were able to contribute more than many other churches, certainly more than the churches of Macedonia, (2 Co 8:2;) and Paul therefore presses upon them the duty of giving according to their means, yet he by no means intended that the entire burden should come on them.