2 TIMOTHY 3:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.”
persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them. — Paul particularizes: the diōgmoi (persecutions) and pathēmata (sufferings) in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra tested his faith yet produced deliverance (rhyomai) by the Lord. Suffering survived becomes testimony.
Church Fathers on 2 Timothy 3:11
There are two things that disquiet a teacher, the number of heretics, and men's wanting fortitude to endure sufferings. And yet he has said much about these, that such always have been, and always will be, and no age will be free from them, and that they will not be able to injure us, and that in the world there are vessels of gold and of silver. You see how he proceeds to discourse about his afflictions, “which came upon me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra.” Why has he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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