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2Co 6:8. Δόξης, glory) δόξα and ἀτιμία, glory and disgrace are derived from those, who possess authority, and fall upon those, who are present; evil report and good report are in the hands of the multitude, and fall upon the absent. [Furthermore, glory proceeds from those, who recognise the character which the minister of God sustains; disgrace, from those, who do not recognise him as such, and therefore esteem more highly others, that in the affairs of this world perform any trifling work whatever. Infamy or evil report proceeds from the ignorant and malevolent; good report from the well-informed in like manner as also the well affected. In proportion as a man has more or less of glory or good report, in the same proportion has he also more or less of either disgrace or infamy respectively.-V. g.] The contraries are elegantly mixed togother.-δυσφημίας, evil report) If not even the apostles escaped this evil report, who can ask to escape it?-ὡς πλάνοι, as deceivers) men of the deepest infamy.-ἀληθεῖς, true) in the opinion of believers, and in reality.