The answer
His poverty was worse than a beggar’s.
He endured physical pain.
He endured the death of his children.
He endured ridicule from men.
He endured the horrors of the night.
Fr. Tadros Yacoub Malaty
Notes
663 See St. John Chrysostom, A Treatise to Prove That No One Can Harm the Man Who Does Not Injure Himself 3 (NPNF I/9:273).