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2 Corinthians 10:5
casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,
casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ,
Verse 2 Corinthians 10:5. _CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS_] δογισμους. _Reasonings_ or _opinions_. The Greek philosophers valued themselves especially on their _ethic systems_, in which their reasonings a...
CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS - Margin, reasonings. The word is probably used here in the sense of device, and refers to all the plans of a wicked world; the various systems of false philosophy; and the r...
III. THE APOSTLE'S SELF-DEFENSE AND VINDICATION. CHAPTER S 10-13 1. The Vindication of His Authority CHAPTER 10 The apostle now turns to vindicate the authority, which he had received from the Lord....
A WARNING TO THOSE WHO MISUNDERSTAND AND MISREPRESENT PAUL. The abruptness and emphasis of the opening words, as well as their want of connexion with what precedes, are best explained on the hypothesi...
It is I Paul who call upon you--and I am doing it in the gentleness and the sweet reasonableness of Christ--I, who, as you say, am a poor creature when I am with you, but a man of courage when I am ab...
PAUL BEGINS TO ANSWER HIS CRITICS (2 Corinthians 10:1-6)...
IMAGINATIONS. thoughts, or reasonings. Greek. _logismos_. Only here and Romans 2:15. HIGH THING. Greek. _hupsoma._ Only here and Romans 8:39. EXALTETH. Greek. _epairo._ See Acts 1:9. AGAINST. Gr
_casting down_ This is not spoken of the _weapons_, but of the _Apostles_. _imaginations_ Rather, as margin, REASONINGS (_consilia_, Vulgate, _counceilis_, Wiclif).The rendering -imaginations" comes...
ΛΟΓΙΣΜΟῪΣ ΚΑΘΑΙΡΟΥ͂ΝΤΕΣ. Returning to στρατευόμεθα (2 Corinthians 10:3), or perhaps an anacoluthon from τὰ ὅπλα, like πλουτιζόμενοι (2 Corinthians 9:11): SEEING THAT WE CAST _down imaginations_ (Roman...
_PAUL STATED HIS APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1-6:_ False teachers at Corinth accused Paul of being a coward when he was with them and brave when he was far away from them. Paul wanted it unde...
ΎΨΩΜΑ (G5313) превозношение, ΈΠΑΙΡΌΜΕΝΟΝ _praes. med. part. от_ ΈΠΑΊΡΩ (G1869) поднимать; _med._ возноситься. Эта метафора происходит от слова, обозначающего возвышающиеся башни, гл. может быть _pass...
DISCOURSE: 2037 EFFICACY OF THE GOSPEL 2 Corinthians 10:3. Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pul...
AND BRINGING INTO CAPTIVITY EVERY THOUGHT,— The believing soul, when its carnal fortificationsaredemolished,submitsto the conqueror; and then every thought, every reasoning takes law from him. Nothing...
BUTLER'S COMMENTARY SECTION 1 Spiritual (2 Corinthians 10:1-6) 10 I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of ChristI who am humble when face to face with you, but bold to you whe...
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS -...
5 God has no need. Gifts acceptable to Him must spring from a pure motive is better not to give at all than to give with a heavy heart or from an unworthy motive. Extortion, whether by appeals to prid...
10:5 Christ; (k-26) Or 'of Christ.'...
(_B_) CHAPTER S 10-13. ST. PAUL'S DEFENCE OF HIS MINISTRY As explained in the Introduction, this section is regarded as part of the intermediate letter, referred to in 2 Corinthians 2:3 and 2 Corinthi...
PARAPHRASE. 'We live in the flesh, and are subject to its weaknesses and temptations, like others; but we are not prompted by fleshly motives, such as dread of giving offence, or desire of popularity....
IMAGINATIONS] the false reasonings of his enemies. EVERY HIGH THING] All the pride and self-satisfaction and self-delusion which made the Corinthians rebel against him. BRINGING INTO CAPTIVITY] The Ap...
GOD SHOWS HIS POWER WHEN WE ARE WEAK 2 CORINTHIANS _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 10 V1 I, Paul make an appeal to you by the *gentleness and kindness of Christ. When I am with you, you suppose me to be w...
CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS. — The participle is in agreement with the “_we_ war not” of 2 Corinthians 10:3. In the Greek word rendered “imaginations,” we have the noun derived from the verb rendered “t...
CHAPTER 22 WAR. 2 Corinthians 10:1 (R.V) THE last four Chapter s of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians stand as manifestly apart as the two about the collection. A great deal too much has been ma...
λογισμοὺς καθαιροῦντες κ. τ. λ.: _casting down_, as if they were centres of the enemy's force, _reasonings_ (St. Paul's message, as he told the Corinthians at 1 Corinthians 2:4 was not ἐν πειθοῖς σοφί...
HE BEGS THEM NOT TO FORCE HIM TO EXERT HIS AUTHORITY WITH SEVERITY WHEN HE COMES. He first expresses the hope that their conduct will be such as to admit of his being “meek and gentle” when he arrives...
MIGHTY WITH SPIRITUAL WEAPONS 2 Corinthians 10:1 Paul here makes his defense. Some who resisted his authority spoke disparagingly of his weak body and uneloquent speech. Why should they yield so abso...
Here begins the third division of the epistle, in which the writer vindicates his authority. Here he seems to have more especially in mind the minority who have been opposed to him. While walking in t...
VERSE 5 The purpose of Christianity is to throw out all human thinking and place God in complete control. Every part of the Christian is to be subject to God's uses and intents....
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, (3) and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; (3) An amplification of th...
Who in presence indeed am lowly. [1] Literally, humble, (see Luke i. ver. 48.) that is, of a mean aspect, as to exterior appearances, and my speech contemptible, without the ornaments of human eloquen...
(4) (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds;) (5) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the kno...
2 Corinthians 1:1-24. It is impossible to read the two epistles to the Corinthians with the smallest care without perceiving the strong contrast between the wounded tone of the first epistle (the hear...
5._And bring into captivity _I am of opinion, that, having previously spoken more particularly of the conflict of spiritual armor, along with the hinderances that rise up in opposition to the gospel o...
The apostle returns to the subject which pre-occupied him his connections with the Corinthians, and the truth of his apostleship, which was questioned by those who seduced them, throwing contempt on h...
CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS,.... Or "reasonings"; the carnal reasonings of the minds of natural men against God, his providences and purposes, against Christ, and the methods of salvation, and every tru...
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; Ver. 5. _Casting down imaginat...
_Casting down imaginations_ Λογισμους καθαιρουντες, literally, _demolishing reasonings_, namely, such as were fallacious and sophistical, by which vain men endeavoured to controvert, disprove, or even...
CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS-EVERY HIGH THING; all the proud and lofty thoughts of men, which lead them to exalt themselves against the gospel....
Though his First Epistle had had good effect upon "the many" at Corinth, yet Paul finds it necessary, as led of the Spirit of God, to earnestly press the serious matter of God's establishing him as an...
IMAGINATIONS: Or, reasonings...
1-6 While others thought meanly, and spake scornfully of the apostle, he had low thoughts, and spake humbly of himself. We should be aware of our own infirmities, and think humbly of ourselves, even...
OLBGrk; CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS; logismouv, reasonings; _and every high thing, _ every height of reasoning, THAT EXALTETH ITSELF AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. The great troublers of this church of C...
casting down imaginations, and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII For "to bring themselves into captivity," and to slay themselves, putting to death "the old man, who is through lusts corrupt," and raising the new man from de...
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‘For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the casting down of strongholds, casting down imag...
2 Corinthians 10:5. CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS (or ‘reasonings'), AND EVERY HIGH THING THAT IS EXALTED (or ‘exalteth itself) AGAINST THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, AND BRINGING EVERY THOUGHT INTO CAPTIVITY TO T...
CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS (λογισμους καθαιρουντες). The same military figure (καθαιρεσις) and the present active participle agreeing with στρατευομεθα in verse 2 Corinthians 10:3 (verse 2 Corinthian...
2 Corinthians 10:5 I. The power of thought. The ability to think is (1) man's great distinction, (2) the instrument of all his work, and (3) the great material with which he works. II. For our though...
CONTENTS: Vindication of Paul's apostleship, and his appeal to Corinthians as brethren in Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The servants of Christ should be sensible of their own inf...
2 Corinthians 10:1. _Who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold towards you._ Paul retorts ironically the unworthy insinuations of the false teachers, sent out by the sanhedrim of Jer...
EVERY PROUD OBSTACLE. This is human pride, human wisdom, things erected as a wall against God. These grow out of worldly motives! Compare 1 John 2:16. EVERY THOUGHT. Paul wants to do more than win arg...
_For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh _ THE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN THE GOOD AND THE BAD What is conceded by the apostle in the text as to the general state of the servants of...
2 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 2 CORINTHIANS 10:1 Paul’s Appeal to the Rebellious Minority in Corinth. In the third major section of his letter, Paul directly appeals to those who are still rejecting his gospe...
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. In this and the two next Chapter s Paul defends his apostleship against the false apostles, who held him up to contempt as vile and despicable, and accused him o...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ REMARKABLE CHANGE OF TONE here, and henceforward. So remarkable that—in last century, for the first time, then in beginning of this, and again, after a respite, during the last fifty...
EXPOSITION With this chapter begins the last great section of the Epistle (verse 1-2 Corinthians 13:10), which contains an impassioned vindication of the apostle's position as compared with that of hi...
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent [I am] bold toward you (2 Corinthians 10:1): This is one of the charges that...
1 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 1:27; 1 Corinthians 3:19; 1 Peter 1:14;...
Casting down [κ α θ α ι ρ ο υ ν τ ε ς]. Not the weapons, but we : we war, casting down, etc. High thing [υ ψ ω μ α]. Only here and Romans 8:39. Falling in with the metaphor of strongholds. High milita...
Destroying all vain reasonings, and every high thing which exalteth itself — As a wall or rampart. Against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought — Or, rather, faculty of the mind. Into capt...