And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
Ver. 26. Recover themselves] ανανηψωσι. Put away their spiritual drunkenness, 1 Samuel 1:14, and go forth and shake themselves, as Samson, out of sin's lethargy. "Out of the snare of the devil," i.e. heretical doctrines or sensual pleasures; both which do intoxicate men's brains and make them dead drunk.
Taken alive] But to be destroyed,2 Peter 2:12, without repentance unto life, Acts 11:18. Εζωγρημενοι, taken alive, and in hunting.