3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.



Ver. 3. But I fear] Jealousy is made up of love, fear, and anger.



By his subtilty] He mustered all his forces, or rather all his frauds, together to cheat her. That old serpent, when he was young, outwitted our first parents; now that he is old, and we young, Eph_4:14, what will he not do, if we watch not? Bellarmine saith of his Romanists, Romani sicut non acumina, ita nec imposturas habent, that they are neither sharp nor subtle. The devil is both, and so are they; witness their crafty cruel both positions and dispositions; this old serpent having lent them both his seven heads to plot and his ten horns to push.



So your minds should be corrupted] Satan hath his íïçìáôá , set and composed machination, 2Co_2:11, whereby he adulterateth our íïçìáôá , our judgments.



From the simplicity, &c.] Of all graces Satan would beguile us of this simplicity; the world calls it silliness, sheepishness.