In stripes: the apostle, 2 Corinthians 11:23, tells us he was in stripes above measure; and 2 Corinthians 11:24, that of the Jews he five times received forty stripes save one: we read of his many stripes, Acts 16:23. In imprisonments; of the imprisonment of him and Silas, Acts 16:23, which was not the only time before the writing of this Epistle, as appeareth by this verse. In tumults, or seditions raised by the Jews and the heathens; we have a record of one at Ephesus, Acts 19:21-41, caused by Demetrius: others, by tumults, here, understand unfixed and uncertain habitations, tossing to and fro, so as they could be quiet in no place; but the former seemeth rather the sense of the word, as Luke 21:9 1 Corinthians 14:33. In labours; he either means labours with his hands, (which Paul was sometimes put to, as Acts 18:3, Acts 20:34), or travels and journeys. The word is a general word, significative of any pains that men take. In watchings; religious watching, 2 Corinthians 11:27. In fastings, as acts of discipline, by which he kept under his body, and brought it into subjection, as he told us, 1 Corinthians 9:27.
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2 Corinthians 6:5
5 In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults,b in labours, in watchings, in fastings;