Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 11:36
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Hebrews11:36
36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds , and imprisonment.
The same Gospel-Faith inabled others, than those mentioned before, Prophets and Saints, as Micaiah, 1 King. 22.24. Elishah, 2 King. 2.23. Isa. 8.18. Amos ch. 7.10. readily, chearfully, and patiently to accept and receive the Experience and Trials of mocking, from the insulting, cruel Enemies of God and his Church, both national and Aliens, being exposed and made a Laughing-stock by Reproaches, Sarcasms, and Nick-names, to aggravate their Afflictions, and these inflicted on them by Words and external Signs, Trials, which to an ingenuous Spirit bears harder than external Torments, and which they more deeply sense and resent; yet Faith makes them to receive all humbly, and carrieth them above them, as Psalm 31.20. and 52.1, to 5. and 120.3, 4. and 140.3.
They felt the Scourges and Whips of their Enemies Smart on them, such as were excessively shameful and painful, being inflicted on the vilest Persons, as Slaves; such as was the matter of these Scourges, such their Smartings, whether of Thongs, Cords, or Wires, Ier. 20.2. and 37.15. This Torment was commonly inflicted on them, not in Antiochus's time only, and those before, but commonly in Christ's and the Apostles days, 2 Cor. 6.5. and 11.23.
They chearfully and patiently submitted to the cruel treating of their Persecutors, who put them in the Stocks, places of little Ease, Dungeons, loading them with Iron Shackels and Fetters, which the Wickeness of Man had invented to torment them with; stern and cruel usage by their Goalers, restraining Society from them, and of comfortable Relief, feeding them with the Bread and Water of Affliction, 2 Chron. 18.26. Acts 16.24.
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