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2Co 10:4. Τὰ γὰρ ὅπλα, for the arms [weapons]) From the paternal rod, 1Co 4:21 [shall I come unto you with a rod?], he now proceeds to arms, with increasing severity; comp. presently 2Co 10:6; also 1Co 5:5; 1Co 5:13.-οὐ σαρκικὰ, ἀλλὰ δυνατὰ) not carnal and weak, but spiritual, and therefore mighty.-τῷ Θεῷ [Engl. Vers., “through God,”] to God) This is virtually an accusative case.[63] So ch. 2Co 2:15, to God. In like manner, Act 7:20; in the same way as the preposition ל is used as a prefix, Jon 3:3 [an exceeding great city, “lit. a city of God]. The power is not ours, but of God. The efficacy of the Christian religion is an argument of its truth.-ὈΧΥΡΩΜΆΤΩΝ, of strongholds) A grand expression. [The human understanding may here suspect inflated language; but it is no common force and power, to wit, the force and power of those things, which in the case of the soul are brought out on both sides (both on the carnal and on the spiritual side).-V. g.]
[63] As the Accus. is often used adverbially, forming an adverbial epithet.-ED.