Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
As it is written (kaqwv gegraptai). Psalms 92:3, Psalms 92:9. Picture of the beneficent man.
He hath scattered abroad (eskorpisen). First aorist active indicative of skorpizw, to scatter, Koin‚ verb for skedannumi of the Attic. Probably akin to skorpiov (scorpion) from root skarp, to cut asunder. See on Matthew 12:30. It is like sowing seed.
To the poor (toiv penhsin). Old word from penamai, to work for one's living. Latin penuria and Greek peinaw, to be hungry, are kin to it. Only N.T. instance and to be distinguished from ptwxov, beggar, abjectly poor.
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