“By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true;”
Through glory and dishonor, good report and bad report; genuine, yet regarded as impostors — the pairs of opposites continue: doxa/atimia, phēmē/dysphēmia. Paul experiences contradictory evaluations simultaneously: he is genuine (alēthinos) yet slandered (planoi, deceivers). External judgment is inverted; reality transcends perception.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 6:8
“By glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report.” What saying thou? That you enjoy honor, and setting down this as a great thing? 'Yes,' he says. Why, forsooth? For to bear dishonor indeed is a great thing, but to partake of honor requires not a vigorous soul. Nay, it needs a vigorous and exceeding great soul, that he who enjoys it may not be thrown and break his neck. Wherefore he glories in this as well as in that, for he shone equally in both. But how is it a…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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