Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:2 - 4:2

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Matthew Poole Commentary - 2 Corinthians 4:2 - 4:2


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But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty; though we be exposed to many sorrows and sufferings, it is not for any dishonest or unwarrantable behaviour amongst men; nay, we have not only declined openly dishonest actions, but any secret or hidden dishonest behaviour. Possibly he reflecteth upon those, whether teachers or others in this church, who, though they behaved themselves very speciously in their more external conversation, yet it was a shame to speak what things were done of them in secret. We (saith the apostle) have renounced all secret, dishonest, shameful actions.



Not walking in craftiness; it hath not been our design to carry ourselves craftily, to cheat people with a fair outside and external demeanour.



Nor handling the word of God deceitfully; nor in our ministry have we cheated and deceived people, instead of instructing them in the truth; crying: Peace, peace, when God hath said: There is no peace to the wicked, and tempering our discourses to all men’s humours, not speaking right things, but smooth things.



But by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God: our business, in the course of our ministry, hath been to commend ourselves to every man’s conscience, as in the sight of God, by manifesting to them the truth of God.