1st Corinthians Chapter 4 verse 11 Holy Bible
Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;
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Even to this hour we are without food, drink, and clothing, we are given blows and have no certain resting-place;
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To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are in nakedness, and buffeted, and wander without a home,
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Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
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Even to this present hour we hunger, thirst, are naked, are beaten, and have no certain dwelling place.
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unto the present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and wander about,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - Unto this present hour. In these three verses he draws a picture of the condition of the apostles, especially of the trials to which he was himself subjected, on which the best comment is in 2 Corinthians 11:23-27. This letter was written from Ephesus, where he had so much to do and to endure (Acts 20:31). Hunger and thirst. "In hunger and thirst, in fastings often" (2 Corinthians 11:27). Are naked (Matthew 25:36; James 2:15; and comp. 2 Corinthians 11:27). And are buffeted. The verb means literally, are slapped in the face (comp. 2 Corinthians 12:7). Such insults, together with scourgings, fell to the lot of St. Paul (Acts 23:2, etc.) and the other apostles (Acts 16:23, 1 Peter 2:20), as well as to that of their Lord (Matthew 26:57, etc.). It showed the utter contempt with which they were treated; for though St. Paul ought to have been exempt from such violence, both as a freeman and a Roman citizen, he was treated as vilely as if he had been a mere foreign slave. Have no certain dwelling place. This homelessness was among the severest of all trials (Matthew 8:20; Matthew 10:23).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) We both hunger.--From the strong irony of the last verse, the Apostle here passes, in the pathethic and sad description which occupies 1Corinthians 4:11-13, to show how intensely true that last word "despised" was, as expressing his own position, not only in time past, but at the very hour of his writing. Here still there is an implied contrast between their condition ("full," "rich," "kings," of 1Corinthians 4:8) and that of St. Paul himself.Are naked.--The better reading is, we are in need of sufficient clothing (as 2Corinthians 11:27).Are buffeted--i.e., are treated like slaves, and not like "kings," as you are.Have no certain dwellingplace.--To be without a fixed home was a peculiar sign of want and degradation. (See Matthew 8:20; Matthew 10:23.) . . .
