Recalling a time when he and his missionary companion were mistreated by opposers, he wrote: “After we had first suffered and been insolently treated... in Philippi, we mustered up boldness by means of our God to speak to you the good news of God with a great deal of struggling. ”
विरोधकांद्वारे त्याचा व मिशनरी कार्यातील त्याच्या सहकाऱ्‍यांचा छळ होत असतानाचा एक प्रसंग आठवून तो असे लिहितो: “पूर्वी फिलिप्पैत आम्ही दुःख भोगून व उपमर्द सोसून,...