It is as if what he wants to say with this (in the Greek) elliptical expression is, Why am I actually so worried about this? After all, Christ is being proclaimed either way (panti tropo), with an ulterior motive (prophasei) or without (aletheia, in truth
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18 What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.