By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;
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Gill's Exposition
As unknown, and yet well known,.... Not unknown to Father, Son, and Spirit, or to one another, but to the world; and that not with respect to their outward estate, but their spiritual and eternal…
Barnes' Notes
By honor and dishonor - The apostle is still illustrating the proposition that he and his fellow-laborers endeavored to give no offence 2Co 6:3, and to commend themselves as the ministers of God, 2Co…
Adam Clarke
By honor and dishonor - By going through both; sometimes respected, sometimes despised.
By evil report and good report - Sometimes praised, at other times calumniated.
As deceivers - Said to carry…
In these verses we have an account of the apostle's general errand and exhortation to all to whom he preached in every place where he came, with the several arguments and methods he used. Observe,
I.…
Cambridge Bible
by honour and dishonour The preposition is here changed in the original, and notin our version. It means either by means of, or by endurance of, both of which senses are given by our English through.…
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