5 For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.



Ver. 5. Our flesh had no rest] Our spirit had no unrest. The outward man suffers much sometimes, when the inward remains unmolested. Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, being asked how he could so well bear his seven years’ imprisonment, answered, Se divinas martyrum consolationes sensisse, that he felt the divine consolations of the martyrs, which as bladders bore him aloft all waters.