2 CORINTHIANS 11:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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.”
But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent's cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ — Paul invokes Genesis 3: the *serpent* (*ophis*) *exapáō*, deceives utterly, Eve's *noús*, mind. The Corinthians risk *apotássō*, being turned away from, their *haplótēs*, single-hearted devotion, to Christ. *Idolatry* is fundamentally *infidelity* of mind.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 11:3
“But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is toward Christ. ” 'For although the destruction be yours [alone], yet is the sorrow mine as well.' And consider his wisdom. For he does not assert, although they were corrupted; and so he showed when he said, “When your obedience is fulfilled,” 2 Corinthians 10:6 and “I shall bewail many which have sinned already;” 2 Corinthians 12:21…
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