2 CORINTHIANS 11:6 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.”
I may indeed be untrained as a speaker, but I do have knowledge. We have made this perfectly clear to you in every way — Paul concedes *idiōtēs*, unpolishedness, in *logos*, eloquent speech. But he possesses *gnōsis*, true knowledge of God, proven through *apostolē*, apostolic activity. *Eloquence* is expendable; *truthfulness* is not.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:6
“But though I be rude in speech, yet am I not in knowledge.” For since those that corrupted the Corinthians had the advantage in this, that they were not rude; he mentions this also, showing that he was not ashamed of, but even prided himself upon it. And he said not, “But though I be rude in speech,” yet so also are they , for this would have seemed to be accusing them as well as himself, and exalting these: but he overthrows the thing itself, the wisdom from without. And…
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