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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:2

I determined. The unadorned simplicity of my teaching was part of a fixed design. Not to know anything. Not, that is, to depend on any human knowledge. Of course, St. Paul neither means to set aside all human knowledge nor to disparage other Christian doer, toes. His words must not be pressed out of their due context and proportion. Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Christ, in the lowest depth of his abasement and self sacrifice. He would "know" nothing else; that is, he would make this... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:2

None but Christ crucified. What is personal is here, as throughout these Epistles to the Corinthians, remarkably combined with what is doctrinal. These are the utterances of a noble minded and tender hearted man, writing to fellow men in whom he takes the deepest personal interest. Hence he writes of himself, and he writes of his correspondents; and to his mind both have the highest interest through their common relation to the Word of life. These Epistles are a window into the heart of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:2

The great theme. The apostolic preacher considered what was most needful and profitable to his audience, not what would meet their curiosity or please their taste. So he, of deliberate purpose, gave prominence to a theme which the Greeks were disposed to scorn, but which they, in common with all sinners, needed to hear—Christ crucified. A modern preacher who would be faithful must keep his soul braced to the same determination: " Not anything … save Jesus Christ." Not Christianity, but... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:2

The subject of the Pauline ministry. The power of preachers is very various. Some depend on the rhetorical form in which they present their message. Their appeal is rather to feeling than to intellect, and they are stronger in the persuasive than in the instructive faculties. Very important spheres open to such men, though their work always needs careful and wise following up and supplementing. Others depend almost wholly upon the value of their subject matter, and even fail to win the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:2

For I determined - I made a resolution. This was my fixed, deliberate purpose when I came there. It was not a matter of accident, or chance, that I made Christ my great and constant theme, but it was my deliberate purpose. It is to be recollected that Paul made this resolution, knowing the special fondness of the Greeks for subtle disquisitions, and for graceful and finished elocution; that he formed it when his own mind, as we may judge from his writings, was strongly inclined by nature to an... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 2:2-5

1 Corinthians 2:2-5. For I determined not to know any thing, &c. To act as one who knew nothing, or to waive all my other knowledge, and not to preach any thing save Jesus Christ and him crucified That is, what he taught, did, and suffered. Or, not only to preach the gospel sincerely, without any mixture of human wisdom, but chiefly to insist upon that part of it which seems most contemptible, and which human wisdom does most abhor, namely, concerning the sufferings and crucifixion of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:1-16

Worldly and spiritual wisdom (2:1-16)Paul reminds the Corinthians that when he was among them he did not try to impress them with any great show of learning. He preached the plain gospel without trying to make it attractive to any one class of people (2:1-2). During his time in Corinth, Paul had been physically weak and lacked his usual boldness. As a result his preaching was not at all impressive. Yet this was no great disappointment to him, because he wanted his converts to stand in the power... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 2:2

determined . App-122 . know . App-132 . among App-104 . save = except. Greek. ei ( App-118 ) me ( App-105 ). Jesus Christ . App-98 . Him = This One. Emphatic. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:2

For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.It is the style among certain commentators to construe Paul's method in view here as a reversal of what he allegedly did in Athens. They say Paul tried to preach philosophically in Athens, sustained a miserable failure, learned his lesson and announced his return to a more simple advocacy of the gospel in these verses. Despite the popularity of such a view, however, there is nothing, either in the word of God... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:2

1 Corinthians 2:2. For I determined not to know any thing, &c.— The word rendered to know, is used according to the Hebrew idiom, to cause to know, or to teach. St. Paul, who was himself a learned man, especially in the Jewish knowledge, having told them in the foregoing chapter, that neither the Jewish learning nor Grecian sciences give a man any advantage, as an inspired teacher and minister of the Gospel, he here reminds them that he made no shew or use of either of them, when he planted... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:2

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Corinthians 2:2-5

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:1-16

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - 1 Corinthians 2:2

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:2

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:2

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