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Show knowledge by works — as ministers commended 'in glory and dishonor, as deceivers and true; as unknown and well known; as dying, and behold we live.' Let no stumbling-block be given, that the ministry be not blamed, but in all things commending: through honor won by confession and dishonor borne from torturers, through good report of angels and evil report of men — deceivers in persecutors' eyes, true before God.
Greek (GCS)
δυσφημίας ava- σχώμεϑα. ἔτε δὲ εἰ ὡς ἀληϑεῖς παρὰ τοῖς φιλαλήϑεσιν ἐθαυμάσϑημεν, νῦν ἐπὶ τῷ λέγεσϑαι ἡμᾶς πλανᾶσϑαι .γελάσωμεν. ἐπὶ πολλοῖς κιν- δύνοις, ἀφ᾽ ὧν ἐῤῥύσϑημεν, πολλοὶ εἶπον ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ ϑεοῦ ἐπιγεινώ- σκεσϑαι᾿ νῦν ὃ βουλόμενος λεγέτω ἡμᾶς ἀγνοεῖσθαι, ὅτε τάχα μᾶλλον ἐπιγινωσκόμεϑα. φέροντες γοῦν τὰ συμβαίνοντα παιδευόμεϑα μὲν οὐ ϑανατούμεϑα δὲ, καὶ ὁμοιούμεϑα λυπουμένοις οἱ χαίροντες. 1 προσχοπὴν] o übergeschrieben M? | 2 ὑπὸ ὑμῶν τὸ πρεσβυτέριον ἢ <