Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Translate, to mark the true order of the Greek words, "in everything, as God's ministers recommending ourselves," that is, that our hearers may give our message a favorable hearing, through our consistency in every respect, not that they may glorify us. Alluding to II Corinthians 3:1, he implies, We commend ourselves, not like them by word, but by deed.
patience— (II Corinthians 12:12). Put first. "Pure-minded" follows (II Corinthians 6:6). Three triplets of trials exercising the "patience" (patient endurance) follow: Afflictions (or "tribulations"), necessities, distresses (or "straits"); stripes, imprisonments, tumults; labors, watchings, fastings. The first triplet expresses afflictions generally; the second, those in particular arising from the violence of men; the third, those which he brought on himself directly or indirectly.
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