...persecutions,8 in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments." (2 Cot. vi. 4, 5.) And again, " Even to this present hour, we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace, and labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless ; being persecuted, we...

...blessed whom we ought to consider blessed, is evident from j hence. For when you hear Paul saying, " Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffetted, and have no certain dwelling place." s And again; " Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,...

...condition your object. [2.] And "let no one," saith he, "think that I speak only of the past :" Ver. is. "Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked." Seest thou that all the life of Christians must be such as this ; and not merely a day or two ? For...

...hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of...

...love, and mark what one of them who had laboured the most said : Even unto this hour, sayi he, we loth hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no fixed abode. And we labour working with our own hands : we are reviled, and we Mess : we are persecuted,...