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An Active Spiritual Adversary
Commentators are clear that "the god of this world" is Satan. Paul isn't just describing human stubbornness; he's revealing a spiritual battle. Satan actively works to blind the minds of unbelievers, using worldly distractions, false ideas, and vice to prevent them from seeing the truth and beauty of the gospel. This explains why a message of hope can be met with such resistance.
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2 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Corinthians 4:4
18th Century
Theologian
In whom. In respect to whom; among whom; or in whose hearts. The design of this verse is to account for the fact that the glory o…
AT Robertson
On 2 Corinthians 4:4
The god of this world (ο θεος του αιωνος τουτου). "Age," more exactly, as in 1 Corinthians 1:20. Satan is "the god of …
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Corinthians 4:4
19th Century
Bishop
In whom the god of this world . . .—The word sounds somewhat startling as a description of the devil, but it has parallels in …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 2 Corinthians 4:3–4
19th Century
Preacher
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 2 Corinthians 4:4
Paul’s Gospel, some had claimed, was designed only for a spiritually minded elite; what he said was obscure and what he did was underhanded (v.2).F…
John Calvin
On 2 Corinthians 4:4
16th Century
Theologian
Whose minds the god of this world—He intimates that no account should be taken of their perverse obstinacy. “They do not see,” he says, “t…
John Gill
On 2 Corinthians 4:4
17th Century
Pastor
In whom the god of this world has blinded
The description of the persons to whom the Gospel is hid, is here further …
Matthew Henry
On 2 Corinthians 4:1–7
17th Century
Minister
The best of people would faint if they did not receive mercy from God. And that mercy which has helped us out, and helped us on, until now, we may …