And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Paul is saying that the main point is not that he and his fellow apostles are suffering, for that is common to all. What is unique about them is that they are suffering without despair or anger. On the contrary, they are full of rejoicing, and they prove it by returning good for the evil they receive.
