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2Co_2:11. Aim of this pardon imparted διʼ ὑμᾶς : that we might not be overreached, etc. A being overreached by Satan, the enemy of Christ and of Christianity, would be the result if that pardon were refused to the sinner, and thereby his καταποθῆναι τῇ περισσοτέρᾳ λύπῃ were brought about; for thereby Satan would get a member of the church into his power, and thus derive advantage to our loss. On the passive πλεονεκτεῖσθαι , comp. Dem. 1035, 26. The subject is Paul and the Corinthian churc.
οὐ γὰρ αὐτοῦ κ . τ . λ .] “By Satan, I say, for his thoughts (what he puts forward as product of his νοῦς ; comp. on 2Co_3:14, 2Co_4:4, 2Co_10:5, 2Co_11:3) are not unknown to us.” νοήματα ἀγνοοῦμεν forms a paronomasia. These thoughts: 1Pe_5:8; Eph_6:11. The discerning of them in the individual case is spiritual prudence, which we have in the possession of the νοῦς of Christ (1Co_2:16).