Verse 26
26. That Supplied by the translators, is superfluous.
May recover themselves Literally, may awake in soberness; a metaphor taken from persons who have been asleep in drunkenness. By a slight but not ungraceful mixture of metaphor the drunkenness is a snare of the devil. They awake sober from the devil’s snare.
Taken captive Carrying out the image of a snare.
By him The devil. At Captured by him into (into obedience to) his own will.
From the fact that him and his in this last clause are different pronouns, ( αυτου and εκεινου ) Ellicott, Alford, and others refer the last his to God; captured by the devil into God’s will! The only reason for this preposterous perversion is, that such a use of different pronouns, though confessedly referable to the same person, requires that the last pronoun should be emphatic. Yet that requirement is amply satisfied (as Huther truly notes) by the rendering: Captured by the devil at his own will.
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