2 Corinthians 10:5

5. Casting This participle, like having, in 2 Corinthians 10:6, refers, through our, in 2 Corinthians 10:4, to we in 2 Corinthians 10:3. 2 Corinthians 10:4 parenthetically describes the weapons, but 2 Corinthians 10:3; 2 Corinthians 10:5, describe the war and warriors.

Imaginations The intellectual powers for which strongholds was the figure. The word, of course, is used to include the proud fancies and pretences of St. Paul’s assailants, but comprehends much mightier powers. Paul’s weapons were yet to conquer the Roman empire; much more destroy the figments of his present opponents.

Every high thing Those proud systems of Paganism and Judaism which, like military towers, rejoiced in their height and strength.

Against the knowledge of God Not only the atheism of Epicurus and Lucretius, which denied God, but even the purer philosophy of Aristotle and Plato, so far as they stood in the way of the genuine knowledge of God as revealed in Jesus Christ.