John Bengel Commentary - 2 Corinthians 10:5 - 10:5

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John Bengel Commentary - 2 Corinthians 10:5 - 10:5


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2Co 10:5. Λογισμοὺς [imaginations, reasonings] thoughts) those very thoughts of which he speaks, 2Co 10:2.[64]-ΚΑΘΑΙΡΟῦΝΤΕς, casting down) This expression might be construed with 2Co 10:3, but it rather depends on 2Co 10:4, the pulling down [καθαίρεσιν]. Again, the nominative is used for an oblique case, as in ch. 2Co 9:13, note.-ΠᾶΝ ὝΨΩΜΑ, every high thing) Thoughts is the species; high thing, the genus. He does not say, ὕψος; comp. Rom 8:39, note.[65]-ἐπαιρόμενον, exalting itself) like a wall and a rampart.-κατὰ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ Θεοῦ, against the knowledge of God) True knowledge makes men humble [attributing all power to GOD alone.-V. g.] Where there is exaltation of self, there the knowledge of God is wanting.-αἰχμαλωτίζοντες πᾶν νόημα) ΝΌΗΜΑ implies the faculty of the mind, νοός, of which ΛΟΓΙΣΜΟῚ, the thoughts, are the acts. The latter, hostile in [of] themselves, are cast down; the former vanquished and taken captive is wont to surrender itself, so that it necessarily and willingly tenders the obedience of faith to Christ the conqueror, having laid aside all its own authority, even as a slave entirely depends on the will of his master.

[64] Λογισμοὺς alludes, by Mimesis, to the Corinthians, τοὺς λογιζομενους, etc., 2Co 10:2.-ED.

[65] ὕψος the primitive, height absolutely: ὕψωμα a kind of verbal, not so much high, as a thing made high, elevated, elated.-ED.