2 Corinthians 11:24 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:24

“Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.” Why, “save one?” There was an ancient law that he who had received more than the forty should be held disgraced among them. Lest then the vehemence and impetuosity of the executioner by inflicting more than the number should cause a man to be disgraced, they decreed that they should be inflicted, “save one,” that even if the executioner should exceed, he might not overpass the forty, but remaining within the…