Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Casting down imaginations (logismouv kaqairountev). The same military figure (kaqairesiv) and the present active participle agreeing with strateuomeqa in verse II Corinthians 10:3 (verse II Corinthians 10:4 a parenthesis). The reasonings or imaginations (logismouv, old word from logizomai, to reckon, only here in N.T. and Romans 2:15) are treated as forts or citadels to be conquered.
Every high thing that is exalted (pan uywma epairomenon). Same metaphor. uywma from uyow is late Koin‚ word (in LXX, Plutarch, Philo, papyri) for height and that figure carried on by epairomenon. Paul aims to pull down the top-most perch of audacity in their reasonings against the knowledge of God. We need Paul's skill and courage today.
Bringing every thought into captivity (aixmalwtizontev pan nohma). Present active participle of aixmalwtizw, common Koin‚ verb from aixmalwtov, captive in war (aixmh, spear, alwtov verbal of aliskomai, to be taken). See on Luke 21:24. Paul is the most daring of thinkers, but he lays all his thoughts at the feet of Jesus. For nohma (device) see on II Corinthians 2:11.
To the obedience of Christ (eiv thn upakohn tou Xristou). Objective genitive, "to the obedience unto Christ." That is Paul's conception of intellectual liberty, freedom in Christ. Deissmann (St. Paul, p. 141) calls this "the mystic genitive."
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Corinthians 10:5:
Romans 7:23
2 Timothy 3:6
Philemon 1:23
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