2 Corintios 11:14

14 Y no es de extrañar, ya que Satanás mismo se disfraza de ángel de luz.

2 Corintios 11:14 Meaning and Commentary

2 Corinthians 11:14

And no marvel
This need not be wondered at, nor is it any new or strange thing; nor should it be thought to be incredible that there are such persons in being:

for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light;
a good angel, one that has his abode in the regions of light; and is possessed of divine and spiritual light and understanding; who is clothed and arrayed with light, this is his form and essence. The apostle speaks agreeably to the notion, of the Jews, who say F20,

``(rwa Mh Mlk Mykalmhv) , "that all the angels are light", the clothing of God himself;''

and they have a distinction between (Mwyd Nykalm) , "angels of the day", and angels of the night F21: now Satan, the enemy of mankind, sometimes appears in the form of one of these; as he did to Eve in the garden, and to Christ in the wilderness; and by such appearances he often imposes on mankind; pretends the greatest friendship, when he designs nothing but ruin; and under a notion of good, either honest, or pleasant, or profitable, draws on into the commission of the greatest evils; and, under a show of truth, introduces the most notorious falsehoods and errors; and, under a pretence of religion, all sorts of idolatry, superstition, and impiety; it is in this way he has succeeded in his enterprises and temptations; these are his wiles, stratagems, and cunning devices.


FOOTNOTES:

F20 R. Abraham Seba, Tzeror Hammor, fol. 18. 4.
F21 Zohar in Numb. fol. 91. 1. & 93. 3.

2 Corintios 11:14 In-Context

12 Pero seguiré haciendo lo que hago, a fin de quitar todo pretexto a aquellos que, buscando una oportunidad para hacerse iguales a nosotros, se jactan de lo que hacen.
13 Tales individuos son falsos apóstoles, obreros estafadores, que se disfrazan de apóstoles de Cristo.
14 Y no es de extrañar, ya que Satanás mismo se disfraza de ángel de luz.
15 Por eso no es de sorprenderse que sus servidores se disfracen de servidores de la justicia. Su fin corresponderá con lo que merecen sus acciones.
16 Lo repito: Que nadie me tenga por insensato. Pero aun cuando así me consideren, de todos modos recíbanme, para poder jactarme un poco.
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