John Chrysostom

"This I say, that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech." Seest thou that he saith, I have therefore said this, that ye may not seek it from men. "Delude you," he saith, "with persuasiveness of speech." For what if any doth speak, and speak persuasively?

Homily on Colossians 5 ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

"This," that is, that in Christ is all knowledge, I said so that no one would deceive you. What does it matter if someone speaks eloquently? Know in advance that if such a person does not speak of Christ, then he speaks nothing but paralogisms and sophisms.

Commentary on Colossians ↗

Clement of Alexandria

I hear also those words of his, "And these things I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words, or one should enter in to spoil you." And again, "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ;" branding not all philosophy, but the Epicurean, which Paul mentions in the Acts of the Apostles, which abolishes providence and deifies pleasure, and whatever other philosophy honours the elements, but places not over them the …

The Stromata Book 1 ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Then (v. 4), he teaches and warns them about destructive doctrines. For they were being misled by certain philosophers in matters against the faith, and by heretics who taught that the ceremonies of the law had to be observed. First, he teaches them in opposition to the philosophers; and secondly, in opposition to the Judaizers (v. 11). In worldly knowledge there are two things: a knowledge of the spoken language, and a knowledge of things themselves. And so they could be deceived in two ways. …

Commentary on Colossians ↗