<p>8:4 <i>Begging us earnestly to accept this grace as a token of their fellowship in this service to the saints</i>- The begging was perhaps necessary because Paul realized they had given more than they could sensibly afford to give. It was &quot;a token of their fellowship in this service&quot; in the sense that Paul understood donating to the Fund as an evidence that they fellowshipped their poorer brethren in Jerusalem. The language of &quot;fellowship&quot; is used (as in 9:13) because Paul's intention was to bind together in fellowship the Jerusalem Jewish Christians and the Gentile Christians in pagan Corinth. It was a grand idea and concept, but the Jerusalem Christians returned to the temple system of Judaism, not heeding the calls in Revelation to come out from that latter day Babylon spiritually lest they be consumed in her AD70 judgments.</p>