“And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:”
Others suffered mocking and flogging (mastigoo), and even chains and imprisonment (phylakē) — the catalog of suffering intensifies: mocking (empaizo), flogging (mastix), chains (desmeō), and prison. These depict the cost of faith.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 11:36
Hebrews 11:36 “And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea moreover of bonds and imprisonment.” He ends with these; with things that come nearer home. For these [ex amples] especially bring consolation, when the distress is from the same cause, since even if you mention something more extreme, yet unless it arise from the same cause, you have effected nothing. Therefore he concluded his discourse with this, mentioning “bonds, imprisonments, scourges, stonings,”…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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