"[A]s the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ"
— Paul of Tarsus (b.c. 10, d.c. 67)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majestie
Date
w. c. 48-58, trans. 1611
Metaphor
"[A]s the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ"
Metaphor in Context
1: Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
2: For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
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.
4: For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
5: For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
(2 Corinthians 11:1-5)
2: For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
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.
4: For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
5: For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
(2 Corinthians 11:1-5)
Categories
Provenance
Searching KJV at UVA's Electronic Text Center
Citation
Bible, King James. University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center.
Date of Entry
06/19/2003
Date of Review
10/23/2003
