2 CORINTHIANS 10:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:”
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does — Paul employs *strateia*, military campaign/warfare, as metaphor for spiritual struggle. Though the Corinthians see him *kata sárka*, according to flesh, Paul's *warfare* (*strateuomai*) is not *kata sárka* but *kata pneuma*, according to Spirit — not carnal weapons but divine *dynamis*, power.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 10:3
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. Here he goes on to alarm them also by the figure he uses, 'for,' says he, 'we are indeed encompassed with flesh; I own it, but we do not live by the flesh;' or rather, he said not even this, but for the present reserves it, for it belongs to the encomium on his life: but first discourses of the Preaching, and shows that it is not of man, nor needs aid from beneath. Wherefore he said not, 'we do not live…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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