53.  I say nothing of his labours, his watchings, his sufferings in hunger and thirst, in cold and nakedness, his assailants from without, his adversaries within.123    2 Cor. xi. 23 et seq.  I pass over the persecutions, councils, prisons, bonds, accusers, tribunals, the daily and hourly deaths, the basket, the stonings, beatings with rods, the travelling about, the perils by land and sea, the deep, the shipwrecks, the perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from his countrymen, perils among false brethren, the living by his own hands, the gospel without charge,124    1 Cor. iv. 12; ix. 18. the being a spectacle to both angels and men,125    Ib. iv. 9. set in the midst between God and men to champion His cause,126    His cause reading τοῦ:  v. 1. τῶν. and to unite them to Him, and make them His own peculiar people,127    Tit. ii. 14. beside those things that are without.128    2 Cor. xi. 28, 29.  For who could worthily detail these matters, the daily pressure,129    Pressureἐπιστασίαν, 2 Cor. xi. 28, ἐπίστασιν. the individual solicitude, the care of all the churches, the universal sympathy, and brotherly love?  Did anyone stumble, Paul also was weak; did another suffer scandal, it was Paul who was on fire.

ΝΓʹ. Ἐῶ λέγειν τοὺς πόνους, τὰς ἀγρυπνίας, τοὺς φόβους, τὰς ἐν λιμῷ καὶ δίψει κακοπαθείας, τὰς ἐν ψύχει καὶ ἐν γυμνότητι, τοὺς ἔξωθεν ἐπιβουλεύοντας, τοὺς ἔνδοθεν ἀντιπράττοντας. Ἀφίημι τοὺς διωγμοὺς, τὰ συνέδρια, τὰ δεσμωτήρια, τὰ δεσμὰ, τοὺς κατηγόρους, τὰ δικαστήρια, τοὺς καθ' ἡμέραν καὶ ὥραν θανάτους, τὴν σαργάνην, τοὺς λιθασμοὺς, τοὺς ῥαβδισμοὺς, τὴν περίοδον, τοὺς κατὰ γῆν κινδύνους, τοὺς κατὰ θάλασσαν, τὸν βυθὸν, τὰ ναυάγια, κινδύνους ποταμῶν, κινδύνους λῃστῶν, κινδύνους ἐκ γένους, κινδύνους ἐν ψευδαδέλφοις, τὸν ἐκ χειρῶν βίον, τὸ ἀδάπανον Εὐαγγέλιον, ὡς θέατρον ἦν καὶ ἀγγέλοις καὶ ἀνθρώποις, μέσος Θεοῦ καὶ ἀνθρώπων ἱστάμενος: ὑπὲρ μὲν τῶν ἀγωνιζόμενος, τῷ δὲ προσάγων καὶ οἰκειῶν λαὸν περιούσιον, χωρὶς τῶν παρεκτός. Τούτων τίς ἂν ἀξίως διέλθοι τὴν καθ' ἡμέραν ἐπιστασίαν, τὴν τῶν καθ' ἕκαστον κηδεμονίαν, τὴν μέριμναν πασῶν τῶν Ἐκκλησιῶν, τὸ πρὸς πάντας συμπαθὲς καὶ φιλάδελφον; Προσέκοπτέ τις, καὶ Παῦλος ἠσθένει: καὶ ἄλλος ἐσκανδαλίζετο, καὶ Παῦλος ἦν ὁ φλεγόμενος.