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Let no man deceive himself (Mēdeis heauton exapatō). A warning that implied that some of them were guilty of doing it (mē and the present imperative). Excited partisans can easily excite themselves to a pious phrenzy, hypnotize themselves with their own supposed devotion to truth.
Thinketh that he is wise (dokei sophos einai). Condition of first class and assumed to be true. Predicate nominative sophos with the infinitive to agree with subject of dokei (Robertson, Grammar, p. 1038). Paul claimed to be “wise” himself in 1Co 3:10 and he desires that the claimant to wisdom may become wise (hina genētai sophos, purpose clause with hina and subjunctive) by becoming a fool (mōros genesthō, second aorist middle imperative of ginomai) as this age looks at him. This false wisdom of the world (1Co 1:18-20, 1Co 1:23; 1Co 2:14), this self-conceit, has led to strife and wrangling. Cut it out.