Prisons. At Philippi, and other places not recorded.
Deaths. Perils of death, as at Damascus, Antioch in Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra, Thessalonica, Beroea.
25. Beaten with rods. Roman scourgings. Stoned. At Lystra, Acts xiv. 19.
Thrice | suffered shipwreck. The shipwreck at Malta, being later, is, of course, not referred to; so that no one of these three is on record.*
A night and a day (vuydjpyepov). A compound term occur- ring only here in the New Testament, and rarely in later Greek.
Have I been in the deep (é€ 7 BuvdId remoinca). Lit., I have made (spent) a night and a day in the deep. For a simi- lar use of trovéw to make, see Acts xv. 33; xviii. 23; xx. 3; Jas. iv. 13. BuIos bottom or depth occurs only here. Of the event itself there is no record.
26. Perils of rivers. From the sudden swelling of moun- tain streams or flooding of dry water-courses. “The rivers of Asia Minor, like all the rivers in the Levant, are liable to vio- lent and sudden changes, and no district in Asia Minor is more singularly characterized by its water-floods than the mountain- ous tract of Pisidia, where rivers burst out at the bases of huge cliffs, or dash down wildly through narrow ravines” (Conybeare and Howson, i., ch. vi.).
Robbers. The tribes inhabiting the mountains between the table-land of Asia Minor and the coast were notorious for rob- bery. Paul may have encountered such on his journey to the Pisidian Antioch, Acts xiii. 14.
* See Lewin’s note, vol. ii., 29, where a table of Paul’s voyages up to the time of writing this epistle is given.
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Mine own countrymen. Conspiracies of the Jews at Damascus, Lystra, Thessalonica, Beroea, etc.
The Gentiles. As at Philippi and Ephesus. False brethren. Judaizing Christians, as Gal. ii. 4. 27. Watchings. See on ch. vi. 5.
28. Those things that are without (rav tapexros). Some explain, external calamities ; others, the things which are left out in the enumeration, as Matt. v. 32; Acts xxvi. 29. Better, the latter, so that the literal meaning is, apart from the things which are beside and outside my enumeration: or, as Alford, not to mention those which are beside these. The word does not occur in classical Greek, and no instance of its usage in the former sense occurs in the New Testament or in the Septua- gint. See Rev., margin.
That which cometh upon me (émiavataais). Lit., a gather- ing together against. Both here and Acts xxiv. 12, the best texts read ériataous onset. Rev., that which presseth upon me. “The crowd of cares.”
Farrar remarks upon vy. 23-28, that it is “the most marvel- lous record ever written of any biography; a fragment beside which the most imperilled lives of the most suffering saints shrink into insignificance, and which shows us how fractional at the best is our knowledge of the details of St. Paul’s life.” Eleven of the occurrences mentioned here are not alluded to in Acts.
29. Burn. With sorrow over the stumbling or with indig- nation over the cause. This and 1 Cor. vii. 9 are the only in- stances in which the word is used figuratively.
30. The things which concern mine infirmities (Ta THs acJeveias pod). He will be attested as a true apostle by the sufferings which show his weakness, which make him contemp- tible in his adversaries’ eyes, and not by the strength of which his opponents boast.
31. Blessed, etc. See on Rom. ix. 5, and compare Rom. 1. 25.
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32. The governor (é9vdpyns). Only here in the New Test- ament. A governor ruling in the name of a king: a prefect.
Aretas. Or Hureth, the father-in-law of Herod Antipas. His capital was the rock-city of Petra, the metropolis of Arabia Petraea. [Herod’s unfaithfulness to his daughter brought on a quarrel, in which [erod’s army was defeated, to the great de- | light of the Jews. The further prosecution of the war by Ro- man troops was arrested by the death of Tiberius, and it is supposed that Caligula assigned Damascus as a free gift to Aretas.