2 Corinthians 11:27

in weariness and painfulness] In laboure and travayle(Tyndale), more literally. So Cranmer also. Our translators followed the Geneva version. Cf. 2 Thessalonians 3:8, where the words in the Greek are the same as here.

in watchings Literally, in sleeplessnesses, i.e. in repeated nights of sleeplessness, whether from anxiety or other causes.

in hunger and thirst Cf. 1 Corinthians 4:11; Philippians 4:12.

in fastings often "Voluntary ones, as he has before spoken of hunger and want." Calvin. Cf. ch. 2 Corinthians 6:5.

in cold and nakedness Dr Plumptre reminds us of the sharp contrast between this view of the greatness of a teacher and that current among the Jews, who had a proverb that "a goodly house, a fair wife, and a soft couch" were the prerogatives of the "disciples of the wise." He refers to Matthew 23:6. See also Matthew 8:20.