2 Corinthians 11:6

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.

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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
But	δὲ de	G1161	but · conjunction
though	εἰ ei	G1487	if · conditional particle
rude	ἰδιώτης idiōtēs	G2399	a private person · noun — nominative singular masculine
speech	λόγῳ, logō	G3056	something said (including the thought) · noun — dative singular masculine
yet	ἀλλ᾽ all᾽	G235	properly · conjunction
not	οὐ ou	G3756	the absolute negative (compare G3361 (μή)) adverb · particle — negative
knowledge	γνώσει, gnōsei	G1108	knowing (the act) · noun — dative singular feminine
but	ἀλλ᾽ all᾽	G235	properly · conjunction
been	φανερώσαντες phanerōsantes	G5319	to render apparent (literally or figuratively) · verb — aorist active participle, nominative plural masculine
throughly	ἐν en	G1722	"in · preposition
made	παντὶ panti	G3956	all · adjective — dative singular neuter
manifest	φανερόω phaneróō	G5319	to render apparent (literally or figuratively)
among	εἰς eis	G1519	to or into (indicating the point reached or entered) · preposition
you	ὑμᾶς hymâs	G5209	you (as the objective of a verb or preposition)
in	ἐν en	G1722	"in · preposition
things	πᾶσιν pasin	G3956	all · adjective — dative plural neuter

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Cross-references

1 Corinthians 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effec…
Ephesians 3:4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
1 Corinthians 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that belie…
2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestatio…
1 Corinthians 2:1-3 And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
1 Corinthians 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with…
2 Corinthians 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your con…
2 Corinthians 10:10 For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:5-15

After the foregoing preface to what he was about to say, the apostle in these verses mentions, I. His equality with the other apostles - that he was not a whit behind the very chief of the apostles, Co2 11:5. This he expresses very modestly: I suppose so. He might have spoken very positively. The apostleship, as an office, was equal in all the apostles; but the apostles, like other Christians, differed one from another. These stars differed one from another in glory, and Paul was indeed of the first magnitude; yet he speaks modestly of himself, and humbly owns his personal infirmity, that he was rude in speech, had not such a graceful delivery as some others might have. Some think that he wa…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Corinthians 11:6

rude--Greek, "a common man"; a "laic"; not rhetorically trained; unskilled in finish of diction. Co1 2:1-4, Co1 2:13; Co2 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" (Co2 12:1-5; Eph 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 ba…

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Adam Clarke on 2 Corinthians 11:6

But though I be rude in speech - Ιδιωτης τῳ λογῳ Though I speak like a common unlettered man, in plain unadorned phrase, studying none of the graces of eloquence; yet I am not unskilled in the most profound knowledge of God, of spiritual and eternal things, of the nature of the human soul, and the sound truths of the Gospel system: ye yourselves are witnesses of this, as in all these things I have been thoroughly manifested among you. Inspired men received all their doctrines immediately from God, and often the very words in which those doctrines should be delivered to the world; but in general the Holy Spirit appears to have left them to their own language, preventing them from using any…

The Church Fathers

Paul was learned in Hebrew letters and sat at the feet of Gamaliel, whom he was not ashamed to acknowledge, but he showed a contempt for Greek eloquence, or at least he kept quiet about it because of his humility, so that his preaching lay not in the persuasiveness of his words but in the power of his signs.
— Jerome, Against Rufinus 1.17

For the wisdom of God flourisheth not by these things, that is the study and care of earthly thoughts, but all its meditation is upon spiritual things, and its motions and thoughts are above the world, even as the Apostle himself testified concerning himself, "I am a fool to the wisdom of the world, but by my knowledge I possess the wisdom which is above the world."
— Philoxenus of Mabbug, 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 4 -- On Faith: First Discourse on Simplicity

This does not refer to the apostles, who were unlettered men of no eloquence, but to the false teachers whose rhetorical skill the Corinthians preferred. Paul did not mean by this that he did not know how to speak but that commendation did not depend on mere eloquence. A person of little eloquence is not guilty before God, but someone who does not know God is liable to be charged with ignorance, because it was a sin to be ignorant of what is conducive to salvation. It was not eloquence which would commend Paul's message but the power to save which accompanied it.
— Ambrosiaster, COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES

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Dictionary and topics

Basket — There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version: (1.) A basket (Heb. sal, a twig or osier) for holding bread (Gen. 40:16; Ex. 29:3, 23; Lev. 8:2, 26, 31; Num. 6:15, 17,…
Paul · Per — Per

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2 Corinthians 11:6

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:5-15

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Corinthians 11:6

Adam Clarke on 2 Corinthians 11:6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

2 Corinthians 11:6

Word by word — the Greek

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on 2 Corinthians 11:5-15

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 2 Corinthians 11:6

Adam Clarke on 2 Corinthians 11:6

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on 2 Corinthians 11:6

John Calvin on 2 Corinthians 11:1-6

Tyndale Open Study Notes on 2 Corinthians 11:5-6