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2 Corinthians 11:27 (WEB)
in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

Fathers and councils · 12

Jerome, Against Jovinianus Book 2
“…by prayer and fasting.Cornelius the centurion was found worthy through alms-giving and frequent fasts to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit before baptism.The Apostle Paul, after speaking of hunger and thirst, and his other labours, perils from robbers, shipwrecks, loneliness, enumerates frequent fasts.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 27.
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Jerome, Letters Letter 22
“…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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Jerome, Letters Letter 109
“Paul says: “continue in prayer and watch in the same,” and in another place he speaks of himself as “in watchings often.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 27.
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John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XXIV.23Conference XXIV
“By the needs of what want will his courage be overcome, who knows how to do without “scrip for the way, money for the purse,” and, like the Apostle, glories “in many fasts, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness”?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 37
“…and in want, so as to be compelled to beg bread: should particularly call to mind the Apostle Paul, who says, “In hunger and thirst; in cold and nakedness;” and should stumble thereat, saying to himself, “Is that certainly true which I have been singing?” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 57
“He was in oppressions, in chains, in prisons, in stripes, in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness, in every wasting of toils and pains, and he was saying, “We glory in tribulations.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 27.
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Augustine of Hippo, On the Sermon on the Mount II.17Book II
“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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Athanasius of Alexandria, Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.4Personal Letters
“You can drink no wine, like Timothy, and fast constantly too, like Paul, in order that thus fasting after his example you may feast others with your words, and while thirsting for lack of drink, water others by teaching.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 27.
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John Chrysostom, Homilies on Matthew Homily 86
“Paul also suffered hunger, and was in famine.“But he has no rest.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iv. 11; 2 Cor. xi. 27; Phil. iv. 12.
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Ambrose of Milan, Letters Letter 15
“O Ezra forgetful of Scripture, though he did restore the Scriptures from memory! foolish Paul, who glories in fastings, if fastings profit nothing.” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 27.
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Basil the Great, Letters Letter 223
“…at their triumphing over sleep; subdued by no natural necessity, ever keeping their souls’ purpose high and free, in hunger, in thirst, in cold, in nakedness, they never yielded to the body; they were never willing to waste attention on it; always, as though living in a flesh that was not theirs, they shewed in very…” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 27.
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Tertullian, On Fasting Chapter 8
“…the apostle too, in the Second of Corinthians, among his labours, and perils, and hardships, after “hunger and thirst,” enumerates “fasts” also “very many.”” — editor's note: 2 Cor. xi. 27.
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