2nd Corinthians Chapter 6 verse 9 Holy Bible
as unknown, and `yet' well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
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Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;
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as unknown, and well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as disciplined, and not put to death;
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As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
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as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and not killed;
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as unknown, and recognized; as dying, and lo, we live; as chastened, and not put to death;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - As unknown; literally, as being ignored; as those whom no one cares to recognize. And yet well known. "And becoming fully recognized." "Recognized" by God (1 Corinthians 13:12), and ultimately by all good men (2 Corinthians 11:6), though they might be contemptuously ignored by men. As dying (2 Corinthians 1:9; 2 Corinthians 4:10, 11). Behold. The word calls attention to what seemed like a daily miracle. The paradox of the Greek tragedian - "Who knows if life be death, and death be life?" which seemed so supremely amusing to Aristophanes and the wits of Athens, became a familiar fact to the early Christians (Romans 8:36; 1 Corinthians 15:31; Ephesians 2:5, 6; Colossians 2:13, etc.). As chastened. The daily Divine education of suffering (Psalm 118:18).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) As unknown, and yet well known.--In the absence of fuller information as to what disparaging language had been used in reference to St. Paul, it is not easy to appreciate the precise force of the words thus used. Possibly, he had been spoken of as a man of "unknown" or obscure antecedents, and his answer to that taunt is, as in 2Corinthians 1:13-14, that where he was known at all he was recognised as being what indeed he was. He could show even to them, to some of them at least, whether it were not so. In "dying, and, behold, we live" we may trace a reference partly to the "sentence of death" which had, as it were, been passed upon him (2Corinthians 1:9), partly to the malignant exultation with which that fact had been received, or was likely, he thought, to be received by those who hated him. We can picture them as saying, "His course will soon be over; he will not trouble us long;" and his answer to that imagined sneer is that he is still in full energy. What has befallen him has been a chastening and a discipline, but he is not yet, as they fondly thought, "killed" and delivered over unto death.
