...Cor. vi. 3). Again; — "Are they ministers of Christ? I am more;" and how does he prove this? — "in labours more abundant — in stripes above measure — in prisons more frequent — in deaths oft — in weariness and painfulness — in watchings often — in hunger and thrist — in • fastings...

...preeminence over the other teachers of the Gospel ; but of what kind ? a preeminence of suffering: in labours more abundant; in stripes above measure ; in prisons more frequent; in deaths oft'* encountering every kind of danger; proclaiming the doctrines of the Gospel at the imminent hazard of...

...;" who expressly says, " I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefesi Apostles;" and again, "Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more?" How evidently then do I liese two instances of Matthias and Paul negative the idea of the Apostolick...

...Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abr*ham? so am I. 23 Are they ministers Christ? (I speak as a fool) am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more " queiit, in deaths oft. /24 Of the Jews five received I forty stripe, one. /25 Thrice was I beat rods,...

...doth not behave itself unseemly : seeketh not her own ; is not easily prov6ked ; thinketh no evil. — Thrice was I beaten with rods ; once was I stoned ; thrice I sufered shipwreck ; a night and a day have 1 been in the de*ep. In each of these examples, all the...

...also. Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool)...frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received 188 Refers to believing the works, if not Jesus, "that ye may know and believe, that the Father is...

...the writer of fourteen inspired epistles, the man who was "not behind the very chiefest apostles," "in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft," the man who "spent and was spent" for souls, and "counted all things but loss for Christ,"— the man...

...Paul Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am 1. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in death oft. Of the Jews...

...his devotion and steadfast faith. Of him might be said that he was a " minister of Christ in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often ; in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the...

...and an illustration of this principle, note Paul's testimony in II Corinthians 11:23 and following: "Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant...." You say, "Paul's just one of those 'Type A personalities who get up early and stay up late to work....