2 Corinthians 6:8

by honour and dishonour The preposition is here changed in the original, and notin our version. It means either by means of, or by endurance of, both of which senses are given by our English through. The sense is that not only did he persevere through evil report and good report, but that both were overruled to the furtherance of the Gospel.

as deceivers, and yet true The Apostle now reaches the last division of the modes in which he sets forth the genuineness of his mission. This consists in the contrast between the ideasof his person and work formed by the world without, and the factof which he was conscious within. The world (Matthew 27:63) held Jesus Christ to be a deceiver, and -the disciple is not above his master."