choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

Remember the prisoners as being in bondage together, those who are ill-treated as also yourselves being in the body.

others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment ??37 they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated