in gentleness correcting those who oppose him perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,

In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

And in nothing terrified by your adversaries which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

LN Daily we read stories in which the protagonists are those that destroy Syria (be it Assad or ISIS Daesh) yet we hear little of those who resist, construct and reconstruct the country, in an increasingly difficult context.