2 Corinthians 11:26 - Exposition

In journeyings often. In those days and in those countries journeys were not only perilous and fatiguing, but also accompanied with many severe hardships and discomforts. In perils of waters; rather, of rivers . In all countries which, like parts of Greece and Asia Minor, abound in unbridged mountain torrents, journeys are constantly accompanied by deaths from drowning in the sudden rush of swollen streams. In perils of robbers. Then, as now, brigandage was exceedingly common in the mountains of Greece and Asia. In perils from mine own countrymen; literally, from my race . These are abundantly recorded in the New Testament ( Acts 9:23 , Acts 9:29 ; Acts 13:50 ; Acts 14:5 , Acts 14:19 ; Acts 20:3 , etc.; 1 Thessalonians 2:15 , 1 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Philippians 3:2 ) From the heathen. They were generally instigated by the Jews ( Acts 16:19-39 , Acts 17:5 ; Acts 19:23-34 , etc.). In the city. As at Damascus, Jerusalem, Philippi, Thessalonica, Beroea, Ephesus, etc.—"in every city" ( Acts 20:23 ). In the wilderness. As, for instance, in travelling through the wild waste tracts of land between Perga and Antioch in Pisidia, or thence to Lystra and Derbe; or over the mountain chains of Taurus to the cities of Galatia. In the sea. Storms, leaks, pirates, mutinies, etc. Among false brethren. The word only occurs elsewhere in Galatians 2:4 .