Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
The weapons of our warfare (ta opla thv strateiav). Strateia (old word, in N.T. only here and I Timothy 1:18) is
campaign and not army as some MSS. have (stratia). But both strateia and stratia occur in the papyri for the same word (Deissmann, Bible Studies, p. 181f.). For opla (Latin arma) see on II Corinthians 6:7; Romans 6:13; Romans 13:12.
Of the flesh (sarkika). See on I Corinthians 3:3; II Corinthians 1:12. They had accused him of artifices and craft.
Mighty before God (dunata tw qew). This dative of personal interest (ethical dative) can be like asteiov tw qew (Acts 7:20), in God's eyes, as it looks to God.
To the casting down of strongholds (prov kaqairesin oxurwmatwn). Kaqairesiv is old word from kaqairew, to take down, to tear down walls and buildings. Carries on the military metaphor. Oxurwma is old word, common in the Apocrypha, from oxurow, to fortify, and that from oxurov (from exw, to hold fast). Nowhere else in N.T. In Cilicia the Romans had to tear down many rocky forts in their attacks on the pirates.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Corinthians 10:4:
Romans 6:13
2 Corinthians 10:5
James 2:5
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