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The Spiritual War

1 Now aI, Paul, myself am pleading with you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—bwho in presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.  
2 But I beg you athat when I am present I may not be bold with that confidence by which I intend to be bold against some, who think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.  
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
4 aFor the weapons bof our warfare are not carnal but cmighty in God dfor pulling down strongholds,  
5 acasting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,  
6 aand being ready to punish all disobedience when byour obedience is fulfilled.  
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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2 Corinthians 10:3

For—Reason why they should regard him "beseeching" them (II Corinthians 10:2) not to oblige him to have recourse to "bold" and stern exercise of authority. "We walk IN the flesh," and so in weakness: but not "ACCORDING TO the flesh" (II Corinthians 10:2). Moreover, though we WALK in it, we do not WAR according to it. A double contrast or antithesis. "They who accuse us of walking after the flesh, shall find [to their cost] that we do not war after the flesh; therefore compel us not to use our weapons" [ALFORD].




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