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be = maybe.
no more = no longer. Greek. meketi.
children. App-108.
tossed to and fro. Literally "surging about (as waves)". Only here.
carried about = borne hither and thither. See 2Co_4:10.
wind. Greek. anemos.
doctrine = the teaching. Greek. didaskalia. The evil teaching of the ruler of the power of the air and of demons. Compare 1Ti_4:1.
by = (or) by. Greek. en. App-104.
sleight. Greek. kiibeia; hence our "cube". Only here.
and cunning craftiness = with (Greek. en) subtilty. Greek. panourgia. Compare 2Co_11:3.
whereby . . . deceive = with a view to (Greek. pros. App-104.) the wile, or stratagem (Greek. methodeia : only here and Eph_6:11), of the error (Greek. plane). The association of methodeia with Satan (in Eph_6:11) shows that, here, plane = planos; i.e. the method or scheme is that of the devil himself, and not merely error.