Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 6:5

5 In stripes , in imprisonments , in tumults , in labours , in watchings , in fastings .

The Apostle. Chap. 11.23. tells us he was in stripes often; and ver. 24. that of the Iews he five times received forty stripes save one: we read of his many stripes, 23.

Of the imprisonment of him, and Silas, Act. 26. (which was not the only time before the writing of this Epistle, as appeareth by this Verse.)

Tumults, or Seditions raised by the Jews and the Heathens; we have a Record of one at Ephesus, Acts 19. caused by Demetrius; Others, by Tumults here, understand unfixed and incertain habitations, tossings to and fro, so, as they could be quiet in no place; but the former seemeth rather the sense of the Word, as Luke. 21.9. 1 Cor. 14.33.

Labours, he either means labours with his hands; (which Paul was sometimes put to, as Acts 18.1, 2, 3. & 20.34.) Or travels, and journies. The word is a general word, significative of any pains that men take.

Religious watching, Chap. 11.27.

In fastings, as acts of Discipline, by which he kept under his body, and brought it under subjection; (as he told us, 1 Cor. 9.27.)

Marginal references: Or, in tossings to and fro.