city" (Aots llll:. 28). In the wildeine11, afflictions which to othrrd might sound lilrn Ae, for inslo.nce, in tro.velling through the a record of disiracee, but which left on him wild wo.sto tmots of land between Pergo. and the mo.rke of the Lord .Jesus. His he.ir- Antioch in Pisidia, or thence to Lystro. o.nd bree.,lth escapes were to him, e.s Bosimet saicl Derbe; cl' over the mountain cha.Ins of of the wounds of the Prince of Conde, Taurus to the cities of Gulatia. In the sea. "marks of the protection of Heaven." Storms, lco.ke, plratce, mutinies, etc. Among Ver. 31.-The God and J'e.ther of our Lord false brethren. The word only occurs J'e9UB Christ. This solemn asseveration does elsewhere in Go.I. ii. 4. not seem to be retrospective. It is used to Ver. 27.-In weariness and painfulneSB; preface what was perhaps intended t.o bo litero.lly, in toil and travail (l Thess. ii. 9; a. definite sketch of the most perilous inci- 2 Theee. iii. 8). In watchinge; literally, dents and trials of his life, which would in spell.a of aleeplmness ( Acte xx. 34). In have been to ns of inestimable value. This hunger and thirst (ver. 8; 1 Cor. iv. 11; o.wful attestation of his truthfulness was Phil. iv. 12). In tastings often. It ie not necessary, (1) beco.nse even the very little oleo.r whether thie refers to voluntary faet- which we do know shows ne the.t the ta.le ings. (oh. vi. 5; .Acts xxvii. 9) or to general wonld have been " passing strange;" o.nd destitution short of the aotual pangs of (2) because his base and shameless calumni- hunger. In oold and nakednese, St. Panl's ators had evidently insinuated that he was ideal, like tho.t of hie Master Christ, was not straightforward (eh. xii. 16). (On the the very e.ntithceie of that adopted by the phrases used, see eh. i. 23; 1 Cor. xv. 2-1; weo.lthy, honoured, and full-fed Sho.mmo.ie Eph. i. 3.) and Hillels of Jewish rabbiniem, who de- Ver. 32.- In Damascus. (For the inci- lighted in banquets, fine go.rmente, pompous dimt referred to, see Acts ix. 22-25.) The titles, domestic comforts, o.nd eto.tionary govemor j literally, the ethnarch. This is ease. obviously the title given to the commandant Ver. 28.-Those things that are without. of the city (whether a.n Arabian or a Jew), The adverb thus rendered paTektos only left in charge by Aretas. The word does occurs in Malt. v. 32; Acts x.xvi. 29. It not occur elsewhere in the New Testament, may either mean "trials that come to me but is found in l Mace. xiv. 47; Josephus, from external and extraneous eou1·ces (quai 'Ant.,' xiv. 7, § 2. trnder Aretas the king. eztrinBecus accedunt) or things in aildition Ho.reth, the Emir of Petra, father-in la.w of to these (prretei·ea), which I here lcuve un- Herod the Great. He had either seized tlle mentioned." 'fhe latter meaning is (as St. city during his war with Herod, to avenge Chrysostom saw) almost certainly the cor- the insult offered to his daughter by Herod's rect one. That whioh cometh upon me. adultery with Herodw; or it may have The word thus rendered is either episustasis been assigned to hlm by Caligula.. His (J, K), which means "hostile attack" or relations with Damascus a.re confil'med by "tumult;" as we talk of" a. rush of trouble coins (see 'Life of St. Panl,' exc. viii.). or business;" or epistasis (~, B, D, E, l<', G), Kept . . . with a garrison; litero.Ily, was which may imply "halting, lingering guarding. It is said in Aets ix. 24 that the thoughts; "attention," and so •• anxiety " Jews did this; but they could not in e.ny case (comp. Acts xxiv. 12, where there is the have done it without leave fromtheethnarch, so.me various reading). Of ell the Chnrohes. and quifacitper alium, Jacit peT se, DesirollS No doubt he is thinking of his own Churches, to apprehend me. Both words a.re a little the Churches of the Gentiles (Col. ii. 1). stronger in the Greek-" determining to Ver. 29.-Who is weak, and l am not seize me.'' weak 1 Bee, by way of example, 1 Cor. viii. Ver. 33.-Through a window. A" little 13; ix. 22; Rom. xiv. 21. Instead of stiffly door," or lattice in some house whlch abutted maintaining my own prejudices, I am always on the wall. In a basket (comp. Josh. ii. reo.dy to mo.ke concessions to weak brethren. 15; 1 Sam. xix. 12). The word used by Who is offended, and I burn not t 'l'hat is, St. Luke in Acts ix. 25 is sp'll,ris, which is "who is ever caused to stumble without a general n11me for a largo basket. The my burning with indignation?" In other word here used is sargane, which i8 defined words, "Is not the intensity of my sympo.thy by Hesychlus to be u br.sketof wickerwork, whenever any scandal occurs au addition but which mo.y also mean a.rope-basket. Tlli3 to the triu.ls of my life?" . particular iuoident, no doubt, seems to be Ver. 30.-If I mu.et needs. If boo.sting is less perilous and tryiug than m[l.Ily which forcod on me o.e a. moml necessity (11,i'), The St. Paul has alr~ady mentioned. We must, things whioh conoern mine inJirmities. After however, remember that escape from a o.11, St. Paul co.nnot keep up even for e. few window in the lofty wall of a city guarded verses 11,nything which can be regarded as by patrols was very perilous, o.ud also that "boasting after tho flesh" (ver. 18). Prac- such a method of coucealmout Wt\S very tically his boasting has been only of those trying to the dignity of an Oriental wbbi 1 268 'l'HE SECOND EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS. [ott. xt, 1-88.
euoh ae St. Paul hlld been. Further, it ia mood to bre&k through his rule of retioenoa clear that St. Paul only mentions thie ae on these eubjects. He had played "the the earliest incident in a long line of perile fool" and "the mn.dman," ae ho eays of which it had been hie original intention to himself with indiguant irony, enough; and reoount. But at this point he was inter- he proceeds to epea.k of other personal claims rupted. and laid aside his task of dictation- which ~~ regards as more importaut and an incident which has not unfreqnently had more D1vme. Of all "chapters of unwritten its effect in literature. When next he re- history," not one is more deeply to be re- Bnmed the Epistle, he waa no longer in the gretted than the one which we have thus lost.