In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
In tumults. Being constantly hunted from one city to another, so that I have no place to abide in, but am forced to be always going hither and thither. The word may, however, also denote popular outbreaks or tumults, as in S. Luke 21:9.
Any one of these things is intolerable, but taken together, think what kind of soul is needed to endure them! Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tossings to and fro.
Yet every one of these by itself was intolerable, the being scourged only, and being bound only, and being unable through persecution to remain fixed any where, (for this is in 'tossings to and fro,') but when both all, and all at once, assail, consider what a soul they need. Then along with the things from without, he mentions those imposed by himself.
In labors, in watchings, in fastings; in pureness.
But by pureness here, he means either chasteness again, or general purity, or incorruptness, or even his preaching the Gospel freely.
In knowledge. What is in knowledge? In wisdom such as is given from God; that which is truly knowledge; not as those that seem to be wise and boast of their acquaintance with the heathen discipline, but are deficient in this.
In long-suffering, in kindness. For this also is a great note of a noble soul, though exasperated and goaded on every side, to bear all with long-suffering. Then t...
Be on your guard against every evil word, and every evil desire, and purify your heart from all the vanities of this world. If you guard against these things, your fasting will be perfect. And you will do also as follows.
We command that a bishop, or presbyter, or deacon who receives the baptism, or the sacrifice of heretics, be deprived: "For what agreement is there between Christ and Belial? or what part hath a believer with an infidel? "
