Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.
Ver. 23. Bonds and afflictions abide me] Let no faithful minister dream of a delicacy, or think by any discretion to prevent affliction, but be ready, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, to suffer hardship. To preach is nothing else but to derive upon himself the hate and rage of graceless men, saith Luther.