Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV Wherefore also Paul rejoices for Christ's sake that he was "in labours, more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft."[193] Tertullian Scorpiace Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes, save one; thrice was I beaten with rods; once was I stoned,"[97] Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes And once more, in another place, he declares of himself that he was a minister of Christ more than all others,[354]