2 CORINTHIANS 10:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ — Paul's *battle* is *epistemological*: he *aichmalōteúō*, captures/takes prisoner, every *noēma*, thought/intention, subjecting it (*hupakoe*, obedience) to Christ. The *praxis* of apostleship is intellectual and spiritual formation, *metanoía*, not merely organizational or political.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 10:5
“Casting down imaginations.” First giving emphasis by the figure, and then by this additional expression declaring the spiritual character of the warfare. For these strongholds besiege souls, not bodies. Whence they are stronger than the others, and therefore also the weapons they require are mightier. But by strongholds he means the Grecian pride, and the strength of their sophisms and their syllogisms. But nevertheless, 'these weapons,' he says, 'confounded every thing…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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