Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:5 - 6:5

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 Corinthians 6:5 - 6:5


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In stripes: the apostle, 2Co_11:23, tells us he was in stripes above measure; and 2Co_11:24, that of the Jews he five times received forty stripes save one: we read of his many stripes, Act_16:23.



In imprisonments; of the imprisonment of him and Silas, Act_16:23, which was not the only time before the writing of this Epistle, as appeareth by this verse.



In tumults, or seditions raised by the Jews and the heathens; we have a record of one at Ephesus, Act_19:21-41, caused by Demetrius: others, by tumults, here, understand unfixed and uncertain habitations, tossing to and fro, so as they could be quiet in no place; but the former seemeth rather the sense of the word, as Luk_21:9 1Co_14:33.



In labours; he either means labours with his hands, (which Paul was sometimes put to, as Act_18:3 20:34), or travels and journeys. The word is a general word, significative of any pains that men take.



In watchings; religious watching, 2Co_11:27.



In fastings, as acts of discipline, by which he kept under his body, and brought it into subjection, as he told us, 1Co_9:27.