2 CORINTHIANS 11:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;”
Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea — the *catalog* multiplies: *rhabdízō*, beaten with rods (Roman punishment); *lithoboleó*, stoned (Acts 14:19); *naufrage*, shipwrecked three times; *nukthēmeron*, night and day adrift. Each *disaster* is a *testimony* to *divine preservation*.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:25
“Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck.” And what has this to do with the Gospel? Because he went forth on long journeys; and those by sea. “A night and a day I have been in the deep.” Some say this means out on the open sea, others, swimming upon it, which is also the truer interpretation. There is nothing wonderful, at least, about the former, nor would he have placed it as greater than his shipwrecks.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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