162 II. CORINTHIANS 6, 8-10.

the instrumental sense of the preposition. ' By means of honour which we receive from the friends of God, and by means of the dishonour heaped upon us by our enemies.' That the good honoured him, and the wicked defmied him, was proof of his integrity. This requires too much to be sup- 2)hed in order to bring out the sense. The former interpreta- tion is more simple, and gives a meaning quite as pertinent. The figure which he uses is that of a road, along which he marches to victory, through all obstacles, disregarding what is said or thought by others. This last clause serves as the transition to a new mode of representation. He no longer speaks of w^hat he did, but of the judgment of others concern- ing him. As decewers^ and yet true. These and the follow^- ing adjectives and participles, as they are in Greek, though translated in some cases as substantives, are parallel with (TvvKTToiVTeq in V. 4. ' We beseech you, coynmendlng ourselves, &c., and w^e beseech you, as deceivers^ yet true^ &c.' That is, we go steadily on in the discharge of our duty wdiatever men may think or say. As deceivers^ (-n-A-avoi,) not merely false pretenders, but seducers, men w^ho lead others astray, and themselves wander from the truth. Matt. 27, 63. 1 Tim. 4, 1. 2 John 7. It is here the opposite of aA-TyJets, in the sense of truthful, loving and speaking the truth. Matt. 22, 16. Mark 12, 14. 'Regarded as seducers, we are the advocates of the truth.' As xinknoimi^ yet icell Jcnoicn, (ws dyj/oov/xevot, koX liviyi- vMaKGfxevoL,) regarded with contempt as obscure and ignoble, yet recognised and famous. The antithesis is either that ex- pressed in our version, between being unknow^n and being well known, or, between being misunderstood and being duly appreciated. The latter of the two w^ords used by the aj^ostle may Avell exj^ress that sense, as iTnyivcjaKO) often means to recognize, or acknowledge one to be wdiat he is, or professes to be, 1, 13. 14. Matt. 17, 12, and although the Ibrmer word does not elsew^here occur precisely in the sense of being mis- understood, yet to be unknown and to be unrecognized are ideas so nearly related, that it is not unnatural to take tlie word in that sense here, if the antithesis and context require it. Paul was unknow^n to the mass of the people ; he was taken to be what he was not ; and yet he was duly appreciat- ed, and recognized in his true character by others. As dy- ing, i. e. regarded by others as certain to perish, and behold we live. This is one interpretation. It is, however, more in harmony with what follows to understand the apostle to refer