2. He is showing the importance which this duty had under the law, and thus God's mind.
12. He refers to Canaan and Joshua. Ours is another kind of combat. “Blood and flesh” are not evil here, but men as such contrasted with wicked spirits.
24. ἐν ἀφθ is the character of their state and affections. But I should recommend the enquirer to study the Word for himself before God, remembering that the things of God are spiritually discerned, and this too connected with the thought of God, the mind of Christ: qui hæret in litera hæret in cortice.