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Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Corinthians 11:3

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2 Corinthians11:3

3 But I fear lest by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ .

In all Iealousie there is a mixture of love and fear: the Apostles love to this Church, together with his earnest desire to present them in the Day of Judgment unto Christ pure and incorrupted, caused him to write; because he was afraid, lest that as the Serpent by his subtilty deceived Eve, so some subtil Seducers should corrupt them, and so withdraw them from the simplicity of their Faith in Christ, and obedience to him. This danger was partly from the Pagan Philosophers, mixing their Philosophical Notions with the plain Doctrine of the Gospel; and partly, from some that were tenacious of the Judaical Rites, and would not understand the abolition of the Ceremonial Law.

Marginal references: Gen. 3.4. Joh. 8.43.

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