Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 11:25

25 Thrice was I beaten with rods , once was I stoned : thrice I suffered shipwrack : a night and a day I have been in the deep .

This was by the Pagans, for the Iews whipped Malefactors with a whip which had three cords. We read of one of these times; and of a second, Acts 22.24. when the Captain commanded he should be so punished, but he avoided it, by pleading he was a Citizen of Rome.

Of his stoning, read Acts 14.19. it was by a popular tumult at Lystra.

We read but of one time that Paul suffered shipwrack, Acts 27.18. (which was none of the three times here mentioned, for it was after the writing of his Epistle.) But though many of the Acts and Sufferings of this Apostle were written, yet all were not.

Some by the Deep here, understand the inner prison, mentioned Act 16.14. or some deep dungeon; but more probably he means, some time when after a shipwrack he might be put twent[illegible: 1 letter] four hours to swim up and down the Sea upon some broken part of the ship. It refers to some eminent danger Paul was in▪ of which the Scripture in no other place maketh mention particularly.