Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast, The Whole Council of God.

Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the Reformed Church,

but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church in Lafayette, Louisiana.

And now he switches from by to as, right?

The preposition shifts again, right?

And so as, right, buy is how he was doing it.

Right.

As is now talking about himself, right? And how he is perceived by who he is to them,

how he is perceived by the world and by the communities like Corinth that he ministers to.

Because as deceivers and yet true, right?

So where he's segueing from good report and bad report, right? So there's

these people calling him a deceiver, right? And yet, right, the people who hear him, the people who

know him know he's telling the truth as unknown and yet well known.

Right.

Right.

And so, yeah, he's this sort of stranger going from place to place, right?

Who doesn't sort of have this family and home and community directly around him.

And yet he's well known to the people, to whom he's ministered, like the people in

Corinth.

As dying and behold, we live.

Right.

And so, you know, all those things he just talked about happening to him.

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