Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save
one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered
shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings
often, in perils of waters, in perils of
robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils
by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils
in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils
among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in
hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those
things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the
churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which
concern mine infirmities. The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not. In Damascus the
governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison,
desirous to apprehend me: And through a window in a basket was I
let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.”
(Saint Paul the Apostle’s 2nd letter to the Corinthians
11:24-33; The Holy Bible, KJV)
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