Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on 2Cor 11:6

“For although I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but in all things we have been made manifest to you.”

“rude--Greek, "a common man"; a "laic"; not rhetorically trained; unskilled in finish of diction. Co1 2:1-4, Co1 2:13; Co2 10:10-11, shows his words were not without weight, though his "speech" was deficient in oratorical artifice. "Yet I am not so in my knowledge" (Co2 12:1-5; Eph 3:1-5). have been . . . made manifest--Read with the oldest manuscripts, "We have made things (Gospel truths) manifest," thus showing our "knowledge." English Version would mean, I leave it to yourselves to decide whether I be rude in speech . . . : for we have been thoroughly (literally, "in everything") made manifest among you (literally, "in respect to you"; "in relation to you"). He had not by reserve kept back his "knowledge" in divine mysteries from them (Co2 2:17; Co2 4:2; Act 20:20, Act 20:27). in all things--The Greek rather favors the translation, "among all men"; the sense then is, we have manifested the whole truth among all men with a view to your benefit [ALFORD]. But the Greek in Phi 4:12, "In each thing and in all things," sanctions English Version, which gives a clearer sense.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.