...in the singular number, 1 haaj been fain to continue the same number here, though different from 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more: in labours more abundant, in stripes abore measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews fire times received I forty...

...aceurately describe the labours and sufferings, which a bishop in that day must necessarily expect;— "in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft." Surely under such eircumstanees, no one would enter upon the sacred office, unless it were his " earnest...

...Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites ? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 23 Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool)...measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once...

...those who depreciated his ministry, he could say, Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool,) I more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above...measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jewsfive times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once teas I stoned,...

...I. Arc they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of 23 Christ? (I speak as one foolish) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths 13 even as we. For such are false apostles, de- | often. Five times I received of the Jews 24 ceitful...

...they triumph in all storms and dangers. They stand firm when they are under the greatest pressures. In labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft, 2 Cor. xi. 23. And yet he triumphs in 2 Cor. i. 12. Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,...

...ministered to my necessities, and to them that were with me." To the believers in Corinth he says, "Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more, in labors more abundant — in weariness and painfulness; besides those things, that come upon me daily,...

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...to have been of all men the most disinterested and benevolent. — In labours, says he, / have been more abundant : in stripes above measure : in prisons more frequent : in deaths oft. Qf the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I...