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Casting down imaginations (logismous kathairountes). The same military figure (kathairesis) and the present active participle agreeing with strateuometha in 2Co 10:3 (2Co 10:4 a parenthesis). The reasonings or imaginations (logismous, old word from logizomai, to reckon, only here in N.T. and Rom 2:15) are treated as forts or citadels to be conquered.
Every high thing that is exalted (pan hupsōma epairomenon). Same metaphor. Hupsōma from hupsoō is late Koiné[28928]š word (in lxx, Plutarch, Philo, papyri) for height and that figure carried on by epairomenon. Paul aims to pull down the top-most perch of audacity in their reasonings against the knowledge of God. We need Paul’s skill and courage today.
Bringing every thought into captivity (aichmalōtizontes pān noēma). Present active participle of aichmalōtizō, common Koiné[28928]š verb from aichmalōtos, captive in war (aichmē, spear, halōtos verbal of haliskomai, to be taken). See note on Luk 21:24. Paul is the most daring of thinkers, but he lays all his thoughts at the feet of Jesus. For noēma (device) see note on 2Co 2:11.
To the obedience of Christ (eis tēn hupakoēn tou Christou). Objective genitive, “to the obedience unto Christ.” That is Paul’s conception of intellectual liberty, freedom in Christ. Deissmann (St. Paul, p. 141) calls this “the mystic genitive.”