Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Your adversaries (oi antikeimenoi umin). Those who stand against, line up face to face with (note anti-).
To withstand or to gainsay (antisthnai h anteipein). Two second aorist active infinitives with anti- in composition again. But these "antis" will go down before the power of Christ.
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