2 Corinthians 11:23

2 Corinthians 11:23 . Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more. Be it so that his opponents are ministers of Christ, but at least he himself will claim to be one, and a great deal more, referring to the labours and sufferings which he is now to detail, exceeding that (perhaps) of all the other apostles together,

in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly. [1] Clement, in his (First) Epistle to the Corinthians (5), referring to the labours of our apostle, says: “under-going imprisonment seven times.” But since the imprisonment at Philippi (Acts 16:24) is the only one recorded before the date of this Epistle, Clement, says Lightfoot (p. 48, note 3), must have derived his more precise information from some other source,

[1] This clause, which in the received text comes after the next one, precedes it in the best text.

in stripes more abundantly referred to before (2 Corinthians 6:5), and particularized in the next two verses,

in deaths oft hairbreadth escapes from it: compare 2 Corinthians 4:11, “always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake,” and see Rom. 16:34. Of such narrow escapes the apostle's life was full.