2 Corinthians 11:23 (WEB)
Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
Fathers and councils · 6
John Chrysostom
“So also the Apostle, when he desired to show that he was a genuine teacher, and was arguing against the false apostles, established his authority by his dangers and deaths, saying, “In stripes above measure, in deaths oft.” ( 2 Cor. xi. 23.)” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“…in the sea, in perils among false brethren, in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 23–27.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Now, in the mention of his tribulations and labours, the same apostle mentions that he has had to endure not only prisons and shipwrecks and many such like annoyances, but also hunger and thirst, cold and nakedness.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 23–27.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“I say nothing of his labours, his watchings, his sufferings in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness, his assailants from without, his adversaries within.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 23 et seq.
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Tertullian
“Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes, save one; thrice was I beaten with rods; once was I stoned,” and the rest.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 23.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Wherefore also Paul rejoices for Christ’s sake that he was “in labours, more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 23.
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Cross-references · 11
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies IV.19.