Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Paul is talking about the present as much as about the past, because the Christian must always be living in this way, and not just occasionally. The wrestler may be crowned after a single victory, but if he then goes on to lose, he will not be crowned a second time.
