“In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;”
In beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work, sleepless nights and hunger — the catalog of suffering expands: physical violence, legal confinement, social chaos, labor exhaustion. 'Sleepless nights' (agrypnia) indicates psychological toll. The accumulation is deliberate: Paul's resume is wounds.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 6:5
“In stripes, in imprisonments, in tossings to and fro. ” Yet every one of these by itself was intolerable, the being scourged only, and being bound only, and being unable through persecution to remain fixed any where, (for this is in 'tossings to and fro,') but when both all, and all at once, assail, consider what a soul they need. Then along with the things from without, he mentions those imposed by himself. “In labors, in watchings, in fastings; in pureness.” But by…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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