2 CORINTHIANS 11:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches.”
Besides everything else, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches — the *merizatiō*, anxiety/concern (*mérimna*), for *pasai ekklesiai*, all churches, is Paul's *greatest* burden. *Epistasís*, pressure, is *katheméren*, daily. *Pastoral responsibility* exceeds *physical suffering*.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:28
“In labor and travail.” Perils succeed to labors, labors to perils, one upon other and unintermitted, and allowed him not to take breath even for a little. “In journeyings often, in hunger and thirst and nakedness, besides those things that are without.” What is left out is more than what is enumerated. Yea rather, one cannot count the number of those even which are enumerated; for he has not set them down specifically, but has mentioned those the number of which was small…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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