These words belong to aU the clauses, and not merely to the first. He was not only troubled, but perplexed and persecut- ed, ev Trai/Tt, in every icay. Trouhled^ but not distressed^ ^Xi- (36jxevoL, aXX ov (TTcvoxoipovixevoL, " pressed for room, but still having room." The figure is that of a combatant sore pressed by his antagonist, but still finding room to turn himself J*er' plexed^ but not in despair^ constantly doubtful what way to take, and yet always finding some way open. The word aTro- pe'o) (ttTTopos ci/xt) means to be at a loss what to say or do ; c^a- TTopew is intensive, to be absolutely shut up so as to have no way or means available. Persecuted^ but not forsaken ; that is, although God allowed men to persecute him, and seek to destroy his life and usefulness, yet he never deserted him or gave him up to the power of those who thus followed him. Cast doion^ but not destroyed. The allusion is still to a com- bat. Paul was not only persecuted or pursued by his enemies, but actually overtaken by them and cast to the ground, but not killed. When they seemed to have him in their power, God delivered him. This occurred so often, and in cases so extreme, as to make it manifest that the power of God was exerted on his behalf No man from his own resources could have endured or escaped so much. There is in these verses an evident climax, which reaches its culmination in the next succeeding sentence. He compares himself to a combatant, first hardly pressed, then hemmed in, then pursued, then ac- tually cast down. Tliis was not an occasional experience, but his hfe was like that of Christ, an uninterruj^ted succession of indignities and suffering.
10. Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the Kfe also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
We constantly illustrate in our person the sufferings of Christ. We are treated as he was treated; neglected, de- famed, despised, maltreated; oppressed with hunger and thirst, and constantly exposed to death. Ahoays bearing about. Wherever he went, among Jews or Gentiles, in Jeru- salem and Ephesus ; in all his journeyings, he met every- where, from all classes of persons, the same kind of treatment which Christ himself had received. In his body. This is said because the reference is to his external trials and sufter-