Ye have not] Though ye have suffered much, Chap. 10. 32, &c. yet ye have not resisted unto death, as your Captain did: Or, may be herein the Apostle alludes to those Hethenish conflicts and combates which seldome were determined without bloud, or wherein it was a shame to yeeld before bloud was drawn. striving] With all our might and main, as combaters and wrastlers were wont to do. sin] Or, sinners; as Psalms 49:5. & Psalms 119:133.