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Imprisonments (φυλακαῖς)
See on Act 5:21.
Tumults (ἀκαταστασίαις)
See on Luk 21:9, and compare ἀκατάστατος unstable, Jam 1:8. This is one of the words which show the influence of political changes. From the original meaning of unsettledness, it developed, through the complications in Greece and in the East after the death of Alexander, into the sense which it has in Luke - political instability. One of the Greek translators of the Old Testament uses it in the sense of dread or anxious care.
Watchings (ἀγρυπνίαις)
Only here and 2Co 11:27. See on the kindred verb, Mar 13:33. For the historical facts, see Act 16:25; Act 20:7-11, Act 20:31; 2Th 3:8.
Fastings (νηστείαις)
Mostly of voluntary fasting, as Mat 17:21; Act 14:23; but voluntary fasting would be out of place in an enumeration of hardships.