2 Corinthians 11:25. Thrice was I beaten with rods. This was the Roman mode of scourging, and this also sometimes issued in death. Only one of these three cases is recorded in Acts (Acts 21:22-23). In the apostle's case, this was an illegal act, and inflicted barbarously and with cruel aggravations, the bleeding backs of him and his companions being left to smart on the earthen floor of a dark dungeon, while their feet were kept ‘fast in the stocks,' once was I stoned. This was at Lystra (Acts 14:19), when he was ‘supposed to be dead,'

thrice I suffered shipwreck. How often he went from place to place by sea we cannot tell, but as five times are mentioned in Acts, there were probably several more sea voyages, at some of which this no doubt took place, a night and a day have I been in the deep (or, the length of a full day) clinging to some plank and escaping with difficulty.

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