Here the church in Corinth, the pure virgin betrothed to Christ, was being deceived by the Judaizers, the ministers of Satan (2 Cor. 11:15), who were undermining God’s word by preaching another Jesus, a different spirit, and a different gospel (v. 4) Because of this undermining preaching, the apostle was fearful that the Corinthians would be distracted by the teaching of the Judaizers and would be separated from the genuine appreciation, love, and enjoyment of the precious person of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself as their life and everything. (2 Corinthians 11:3, footnote 2, Recovery Version of the New Testament)
 
Paul considered that all those different teachings were replacements of the unique Husband. The unique Husband is Christ in His unique revelation. Other teachers came in pretending to be even higher than the apostles. However, Paul says that they were “super,” not higher, and that what they taught may become another husband to the Corinthians. To take their teachings is to take another husband. The enemy is very subtle. Throughout the centuries many fundamental and scriptural teachings have been used by the enemy to replace Christ and the revelation concerning Christ. These teachings are more subtle than the Judaic teachings. The Judaic teachings of the Old Testament law and genealogy are not so fundamental as so many of the teachings given in past centuries, especially since the Reformation. Many good, fundamental, and spiritual teachings all became replacements for the proper revelation of Christ. According to Paul, these are other husbands. When the super-apostles taught, they also used the name Jesus and the term gospel. Otherwise, Paul would not have referred to another Jesus and another gospel. This was very subtle.
 
This point is very crucial and impresses us with a principle—anything that distracts people from the central line and from the focus of God’s New Testament economy, even though it may be quite fundamental and scriptural, is a replacement of Christ and of the revelation of Christ. If it is a replacement, it is another husband to us as the pure virgins. (Elders' Training, Book 6: The Crucial Points of the Truth in Paul’s Epistles, ch. 4, section 3)

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