2 Corinthians 11:28

Besides those things that are without The six principal English versions interpret this expression (1) of externaltrials, of which the Apostle has hitherto been speaking "the thynges which out wardly happen unto me" (Tyndale). As the Apostle now begins to speak of inwardtroubles this rendering would seem quite natural. But Chrysostom (2) interprets it of things left out of the enumeration. And this interpretation is supported by the only two other passages in which the word occurs in the N. T., namely, Matthew 5:32; Acts 26:29. Cf. Hebrews 11:32. If this interpretation be followed, we must connect the words, not only with what follows, but with what precedes. -And besides a host of other things, which I cannot now mention, there is the daily pressure of anxiety arising from the Churches under my care."

that which cometh upon me daily There is a various reading here. If we follow the received text, which is that of the Peshito Syriac in the second century and is followed by Chrysostom, we must understand it of the daily concourseof troubles arising from this source. If we follow that which is proposed to be substituted for it, which is that of the Vulgate and of the most ancient MSS. (though it may not improbably have arisen from the copyist's eye having passed from ΣΥ to ΣΤ), it must be rendered "that which pressethon me" (instantia, Vulgate; my daily instance, Rhemish). Tyndale, Cranmer and the Geneva render, I am combred dayly.

the care Rather perhaps, the anxiety, as we speak of carein the abstract, the Greek word being derived from a verb signifying to part asunder, and implying that the mind is torn asunderas it were by conflicting emotions.

of all the churches This must not perhaps be pressed (as Döllinger in his Last Age of the Church) so far as to assert that each Apostle considered himself individually responsible for the care of the whole Church of Christ. That there was some division of responsibility appears from Galatians 2:7. St Paul probably means the care of all the Churches which he had planted, surely no inconsiderable burden.