For, when we were come into Macedonia, our body had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
It is because the flesh is irrational that Paul says that it has no rest from its suffering. But the soul, although it was suffering in the body, did have rest. This is because of the hope that God would reward them for the tribulations inflicted on them by unbelievers. Fightings were inflicted on the body, and fears attacked the soul, but Paul was not at all afflicted in the Spirit, who was given to him so that he might endure such things. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
