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Even unto this present hour (achri tēs arti hōras). Arti (just now, this very minute) accents the continuity of the contrast as applied to Paul. Ten verbs and four participles from 1Co 4:11 give a graphic picture of Paul’s condition in Ephesus when he is writing this epistle.
We hunger (peinōmen), we thirst (dipsōmen), are naked (gumniteuomen), late verb for scant clothing from gumnētēs, are buffeted (kolaphizometha), to strike a blow with the fist from kolaphos and one of the few N.T. and ecclesiastical words and see Mat 26:67, have no certain dwelling place (astatoumen) from astatos, strolling about and only here save Anthol. Pal. and Aquila in Isa 58:7. Field in Notes, p. 170 renders 1Co 4:11 “and are vagabonds” or spiritual hobos.