For I got no relief from the strain of things, even when I reached Macedonia; it was trouble at every turn, wrangling all round me, fears in my own mind.

but I am glad now ??not glad that you were pained but glad that your pain induced you to repent. For you were pained as God meant you to be pained, and so you got no harm from what I did;

If only one is ready to give, according to his means, it is acceptable; he is not asked to give what he has not got.

Thus it is to give and take ??as it is written, He who got much had nothing over, and he who got little had not too little.

five times have I got forty lashes (all but one) from the Jews,