But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

 (c) It was being said that Paul's preaching was guilefully aimed at deluding others. The propagandists of Hitler Germany discovered that if a lie is repeated often enough and loudly enough it will in the end be accepted as the truth. That was the charge which was levelled at Paul. 