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2Co 6:4. Διάκονοι, ministers) This word has greater force, than if it had been written διακόνους.-ὑπομονῇ, in patience) This is put first; ch. 2Co 12:12 : chastity, etc., follow in 2Co 6:6. A remarkable gradation.-πολλῇ, in much) Three triplets of trials follow, which must be endured, and in which patience is exercised, afflictions [necessities, distresses]: stripes [imprisonments, tumults]: labours [watchings, fastings]: The first group of three includes the genera; the second, the species of adversities; the third, things voluntarily endured. And the variety of cases of the several classes of trial should be observed, expressed, as it is, by the employment of the plural number.-ἐν θλίψεσιν, ἐν ἀνάγκαις, ἐν στενοχωρίαις, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses) These words are in close relation, and are variously joined with one another and with the others, ch. 2Co 12:10; 1Th 3:7; Rom 2:9; Rom 8:35; Luk 21:23. In afflictions [θλίψεσιν, the pressure of trials] many ways are open, but they are all difficult; in necessities [ἀνάγχαις], one way is open, though difficult; in distresses [straits, στενοχωρίαις], none is open.