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That we henceforth be no more children; i.e. weak in the faith, unstable in judgment, children in understanding, 1Co_14:20; such as need teaching, and strengthening: see Rom_2:20 1Co_3:1 Heb_5:13.
Tossed to and fro; light and unconstant, like ships without ballast, tossed with every wave.
And carried about with every wind of doctrine; not only shaken and staggering as to our faith, (as in the former clause), but carried about to errors for want of judgment, by false doctrines, here compared to violent winds.
By the sleight of men; their sophistry, whereby they easily seduce those that are unskilful, as men easily cheat children in playing at dice, from whence this metaphor is taken.
Cunning craftiness; their skilfulness in finding out ways of deceiving, whereby they can make any thing of any thing.
Whereby they lie in wait to deceive, viz. as in ambush; the word here used, is translated wiles, Eph_6:11, against which the apostle would have them fenced with the whole armour of God, and seems to signify a laying in ambush, or assaulting a man behind his back; a secret and unseen way of circumventing, a laying wait to draw them that are weak from the truth.