ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματός μου παθεῖν, to suffer for My name. It was no light burden which the new convert was to bear. Cf. his own words (Acts 20:23), ‘the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.’ The truth of this is borne out by that long list of the Apostle’s sufferings which he enumerates in his letter to the Corinthians (2 Corinthians 11:23-28), and the less detailed list in the same Epistle (Acts 6:4-5).

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