2 Corinthians 11:6

2 Corinthians 11:6

4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a ^adifferent gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!

Paul and False Apostles

5 For I consider that ^aI am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles.

6 Even though ^aI am untrained in speech, yet I am not ^bin knowledge. But ^cwe have been thoroughly manifested among you in all things.

7 Did I commit sin in¹ humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you ^afree of charge?

8 I robbed other churches, taking wages from them to minister to you.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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rude—Greek, "a common man"; a "laic"; not rhetorically trained; unskilled in finish of diction. I Corinthians 2:1-4, I Corinthians 2:13; II Corinthians 10:10-11, shows his words were not without weight, though his "speech" was deficient in oratorical artifice. "Yet I am not so in my knowledge" (II Corinthians 12:1-5; Ephesians 3:1-5).

have been . . . made manifest—Read with the oldest manuscripts, "We have made things (Gospel truths) manifest," thus showing our "knowledge." English Version would mean, I leave it to yourselves to decide whether I be rude in speech . . . : for we have been thoroughly (literally, "in everything") made manifest among you (literally, "in respect to you"; "in relation to you"). He had not by reserve kept back his "knowledge" in divine mysteries from them (II Corinthians 2:17; II Corinthians 4:2; Acts 20:20, Acts 20:27).

in all things—The Greek rather favors the translation, "among all men"; the sense then is, we have manifested the whole truth among all men with a view to your benefit [ALFORD]. But the Greek in Philippians 4:12, "In each thing and in all things," sanctions English Version, which gives a clearer sense.

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