Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I speak as a fool--rather, as Greek, "I speak as if beside myself"; stronger than "as a fool."
I am more--namely, in respect to the credentials and manifestations of my ministry, more faithful and self-denying; and richer in tokens of God's recognition of my ministry. Old authorities read the order thus, "In prisons above measures, in stripes more abundantly" (English Version, less accurately, "more frequent"). Acts 16:23-40 records one case of his imprisonment with stripes. CLEMENT OF ROME [First Epistle to the Corinthians] describes him as having suffered bonds seven times.
in death oft-- (2 Corinthians 4:10; Acts 9:23; Acts 13:50; Acts 14:5-6, Acts 14:19; Acts 17:5, Acts 17:13).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Romans 16:7
1 Corinthians 4:11
1 Corinthians 9:12
1 Corinthians 15:31
2 Corinthians 4:11
2 Corinthians 6:5
2 Corinthians 6:5
2 Corinthians 6:9
2 Corinthians 11:26
Galatians 6:17
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