reasonings bringing down, and every high thing lifted up against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Christ,2 Corinthians 10:5 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleCasting down imaginations - Λογισμους· Reasonings or opinions. The Greek philosophers valued themselves especially on their ethic systems, in which their reasonings appeared to be very profound and conclusive; but they were obliged to assume principles which were either such as did not exist, or were false in themselves, as the whole of their mythologic system most evidently was: truly, from what remains of them we see that their metaphysics were generally bombast; and as to their philosophy, it was in general good for nothing. When the apostles came against their gods many and their lords many with the One Supreme and Eternal Being, they were confounded, scattered, annihilated; when they came against their various modes of purifying the mind - their sacrificial and mediatorial system, with the Lord Jesus Christ, his agony and bloody sweat, his cross and passion, his death and burial, and his glorious resurrection and ascension, they sunk before them, and appeared to be what they really were, as dust upon the balance, and lighter than vanity.
Every high thing - Even the pretendedly sublime doctrines, for instance, of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics in general, fell before the simple preaching of Christ crucified.
The knowledge of God - The doctrine of the unity and eternity of the Divine nature, which was opposed by the plurality of their idols, and the generation of their gods, and their men-made deities. It is amazing how feeble a resistance heathenism made, by argument or reasoning, against the doctrine of the Gospel! It instantly shrunk from the Divine light, and called on the secular power to contend for it! Popery sunk before Protestantism in the same way, and defended itself by the same means. The apostles destroyed heathenism wherever they came; the Protestants confuted popery wherever their voice was permitted to be heard.
Bringing into captivity every thought - Heathenism could not recover itself; in vain did its thousands of altars smoke with reiterated hecatombs, their demons were silent, and their idols were proved to be nothing in the world. Popery could never, by any power of self-reviviscence, restore itself after its defeat by the Reformation: it had no Scripture, consecutively understood; no reason, no argument; in vain were its bells rung, its candles lighted, its auto da fe's exhibited; in vain did its fires blaze; and in vain were innumerable human victims immolated on its altars! The light of God penetrated its hidden works of darkness, and dragged its three-headed Cerberus into open day; the monster sickened, vomited his henbane, and fled for refuge to his native shades.
The obedience of Christ - Subjection to idols was annihilated by the progress of the Gospel among the heathens; and they soon had but one Lord, and his name one. In like manner the doctrines of the reformation, mighty through God, pulled down - demolished and brought into captivity, the whole papal system; and instead of obedience to the pope, the pretended vicar of God upon earth, obedience to Christ, as the sole almighty Head of the Church, was established, particularly in Great Britain, where it continues to prevail. Hallelujah! the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!
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Luke 1:51 He has showed strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Acts 4:25,26 Who by the mouth of your servant David have said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things...
Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations...
1 Corinthians 1:19,27-29 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent...
1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He takes the wise in their own craftiness.
imaginations. or, reasonings. and every.
Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.
Exodus 9:16,17 And in very deed for this cause have I raised you up, for to show in you my power...
2 Kings 19:22,28 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high...
Psalm 18:27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.
Job 40:11,12 Cast abroad the rage of your wrath: and behold every one that is proud, and abase him...
Job 42:6 Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Psalm 10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Isaiah 2:11,12,17 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down...
Isaiah 60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted you shall come bending to you...
Ezekiel 17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree...
Daniel 4:37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment...
Daniel 5:23-30 But have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven; and they have brought the vessels of his house before you, and you...
Acts 9:4-6 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why persecute you me...
Philippians 3:4-9 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinks that he has whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more...
2 Thessalonians 2:4,8 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God...
bringing.
Matthew 11:29,30 Take my yoke on you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest to your souls...
Romans 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind...
every thought.
Genesis 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet smell; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake...
Deuteronomy 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand...
Psalm 139:2 You know my sitting down and my rising up, you understand my thought afar off.
Proverbs 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him...
Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity...
Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword...
the obedience.
Psalm 18:44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves to me.
Psalm 110:2,3 The LORD shall send the rod of your strength out of Zion: rule you in the middle of your enemies...
Romans 1:5 By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Romans 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God...
Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all them that obey him;
1 Peter 1:2,14,15,22 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit...
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