2 Corinthians 6:5

5. stripes— (2 Corinthians 11:23; 2 Corinthians 11:24; Acts 16:23).

imprisonments— (Acts 16:23- :). He had been, doubtless, elsewhere imprisoned besides at Philippi when he wrote this Epistle.

tumults— (Acts 13:50; Acts 14:5; Acts 14:19; Acts 16:22; and recently Acts 16:22- :).

labours—in the cause of Christ (2 Corinthians 11:23; Romans 16:12).

watchings— (Romans 16:12- :). Sleepless nights.

fastings—The context here refers to his trials, rather than devotional exercises (compare 2 Corinthians 11:27). Thus "foodlessness" would seem to be the sense (compare 1 Corinthians 4:11; Philippians 4:12). But the usual sense of the Greek is fasts, in the strict sense; and in Philippians 4:12- : it is spoken of independently of "hunger and thirst." (Compare Luke 2:37; Acts 10:30; Acts 14:23). However, Matthew 15:32; Mark 8:3, justify the sense, more favored by the context, foodlessness, though a rare use of the word. GAUSSEN remarks "The apostles combine the highest offices with the humblest exterior: as everything in the Church was to be cast in the mould of death and resurrection, the cardinal principle throughout Christianity."