ACTS 20:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:”
'I served the Lord with great humility and with tears and with trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews' — The triad—humility (tapeinophrosyne), tears, and trials (peirasmos)—depicts apostolic vulnerability. Tears (dakrya) suggest emotional investment; trials through Jewish opposition persist despite Gentile expansion.
Church Fathers on Acts 20:19
See him, hasting to sail by, and yet not overlooking them, but taking order for all. Having sent for the rulers, through those he discourses to them (the Ephesians): but it is worthy of admiration, how finding himself under a necessity of saying certain great things about himself, he tries to make the least he can of it (πειρἅτα μετριάζειν). You know. For just as Samuel, when about to deliver up the government to Saul says in their presence, Have I taken anything of your…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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