despair over how to proceed or which way to go. Plummer (138) suggests “confused, but not confounded.” “Persecuted” (Greek dioko) has the idea of being chased, hunted, pursued. “Forsaken” catches well the idea of the word (Greek egkataleipo); it is the same as is used in Heb. 13:5. “Abandoned” would also catch the right idea. Paul is “a hunted man … [but] not abandoned to the enemy, nor left solely to his own resources” (Tasker 73). “Cast down” (Greek kataballo) suggests what we might call a temporary