In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Ver. 27. In weariness and painfulness] Here is dainty rhetoric. Cicero calleth Aristotle's Politics, Aureum flamen orationis, a golden flood of eloquence in respect of the purity of the style and the excellency of the matter. May it not be more truly said of this great apostle's writings?