Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [2 Corinthians: Chapter 11].
varied experiences of Paul. {Night and day} (\nuchth•meron\) Rare
word. Papyri give \nukt•mar\ with the same idea (night-day).
{Have I been in the deep} (\en t•i buth•i pepoi•ka\). Vivid
dramatic perfect active indicative of \poie•\, "I have done a
night and day in the deep." The memory of it survives like a
nightmare. \Buthos\ is old word (only here in N.T.) for bottom,
depth of the sea, then the sea itself. Paul does not mean that he
was a night and day under the water, not a Jonah experience, only
that he was far out at sea and shipwrecked. This was one of the
three shipwrecks-already named.
11:26 {In journeyings} (\hodoiporiais\). Locative case of old
word, only here in N.T. and Joh 4:6, from \hodoiporos\,
wayfarer. {In perils} (\kindunois\). Locative case of \kindunos\,
old word for danger or peril. In N.T. only this verse and Ro
8:35. The repetition here is very effective without the
preposition \en\ (in) and without conjunctions (asyndeton). They
are in contrasted pairs. The rivers of Asia Minor are still
subject to sudden swellings from floods in the mountains. Cicero
and Pompey won fame fighting the Cilician pirates and robbers
(note \l•ist•n\, not \klept•n\, thieves, brigands or bandits on
which see ¯Mt 26:55). The Jewish perils (\ek genous\, from my
race) can be illustrated in Ac 9:23,29; 13:50; 14:5; 17:5,13;
18:12; 23:12; 24:27, and they were all perils in the city also.
Perils from the Gentiles (\ex ethn•n\) we know in Philippi (Ac
16:20) and in Ephesus (Ac 19:23f.). Travel in the mountains
and in the wilderness was perilous in spite of the great Roman
highways. {Among false brethren} (\en pseudadelphois\). Chapters
2Co 10; 11 throw a lurid light on this aspect of the subject.
11:27 {In labour and travail} (\kop•i kai mochth•i\). Both old
words for severe work, combined here as in 1Th 2:9; 2Th 3:8,
"by toil and moil" (Plummer). The rest of the list is like the
items in 2Co 6:4ff. {In cold} (\en psuchei\). Old word from
\psuch•\, to cool by blowing. See Ac 28:2. See the picture of
the aged Paul later in the Roman dungeon (2Ti 4:9-18).
11:28 {Besides those things that are without} (\ch•ris t•n
parektos\). Probably, "apart from those things beside these just
mentioned." Surely no man ever found glory in such a peck of
troubles as Paul has here recounted. His list should shame us all
today who are disposed to find fault with our lot. {That which
presseth upon me daily} (\h• epistasis moi h• kath' h•meran\).
For this vivid word \epistasis\ see Ac 24:12, the only other
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