<p>11:6 <em>Although rude in speech, I am not in knowledge. No, in every way have we made this manifest to you in all things</em>- Paul was falsely accused of being an <em>idiotes</em> &quot;rude&quot;, an uneducated and simple person who pretended to the intelligentsia. This was patently untrue. But Paul doesn't attack the lies, he argues that even if that is true, and he doesn't bother justifying himself, then it could not be said that he was lacking in true knowledge. Again he is appealing to them to stop judging after the outward appearance (see on 10:7), but to look to the essence, the Spirit within. Paul can say that they surely know what &ldquo;knowledge&rdquo; he has, because he has been thoroughly manifested Gk. <em>phaneroo</em> to them in absolutely every way; there was nothing he knew which he hadn&rsquo;t shared with them. He is so open with them that he doesn&rsquo;t just write in a political, guarded way to them, watching every word.</p>