The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
The apparent foolishness is the only wisdom. read more
1 Corinthians 2:9-10, Isaiah 64:4-5 Esv
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
True wisdom. I. IS FOUND IN CHRISTIANITY . Paul has been speaking slightingly of" wisdom." Might lead some to suppose that Christianity was unwise, or at all events a one-sided system; that it was a religion for the heart only, and unfriendly to the intellect. The apostle guards against this damaging supposition by claiming true wisdom for Christianity. What he has been decrying is the ineffective wisdom of the world. Christianity is for the whole man. When a man is in a right... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:8-9
Spiritual ignorance the cause of immense evil and the occasion, of immense good. "Which none of the princes of this world," etc. The words lead us to look on spiritual ignorance— i.e. , ignorance of God and our obligations to him—in two very opposite aspects. I. AS THE CAUSE OF IMMENSE EVIL . These "princes of the world," through ignorance, "crucified the Lord of glory." A greater crime was never perpetrated. It involved: 1. Because it is in itself an evil, and like... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:9
But as it is written. The whole sentence in the Greek is unfinished. The thought seems to be, "But God has revealed to us things which eye hath not seen, etc., though the princes of this world were ignorant of them." Scriptural quotations are often thus introduced, apart from the general grammar of the sentence, as in the Greek of 1 Corinthians 1:31 . Eye hath not seen, etc. The Revised Version is here more literal and accurate. The quotation as it stands is not found in the Old... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:9
The surprising freshness of the new dispensation. The precise words, as quoted by the apostle, are not found in the Old Testament. They are probably Isaiah 64:4 , given from memory and modified by the thought of phrases found in other parts of Isaiah. Only an unreasonable sentiment concerning verbal inspiration would make difficulty about the inexactness of quotations given from memory. The sense of a passage may be precisely indicated when the words are set in a different order and... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:9-10
The revelation of things unseen and unheard. It may perhaps have been complained, though unreasonably enough, that Paul's compositions were lacking in logic, and his language in eloquence. There was in the substance of his teaching enough to compensate any deficiencies of such kinds. No sage communicated such wisdom, no poet such wonders, as he. Deep things, drawn by the Spirit from the ocean of God's unfathomable nature, were brought up, and were by him presented to the Church of... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:9-10
The true wisdom. Often in the Epistles there is a single word on which the whole discussion turns. In the letter to the Romans, it is "righteousness;" to the Colossians, it is "fulness;" to the Hebrews, it is "perfection." In the letter to the Corinthians, it is "wisdom." Those Greeks sought after wisdom. It was nothing to them that the gospel might relieve a troubled conscience or reform an unworthy life, if it did not correspond with their ideas of philosophy. But St. Paul had an answer... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:9-14
The revelation of the things of God. It may be that we have here a free quotation of Isaiah 64:4 . But whether a quotation or not, it expresses a principle true in every age. The great "things of God" have ever been beyond the reach of the unaided powers of man. What are these "things which God hath prepared for them that love him"? To apply this expression, as is sometimes done, merely to the glories and joys of the heaven of the future, is to narrow its meaning. Those heavenly things,... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:10
But God hath revealed them unto us. They are secret no longer, but are "mysteries which now it is given us to know" ( Matthew 13:11 ). By his Spirit. The Spirit guides into all truth ( John 13:16 ). In 1 Corinthians 12:8-11 St. Paul attributes every gift of wisdom directly to him. Searcheth . "How unsearchable are his judgments!" ( Romans 11:33 ). Yea, the deep things of God. This expression, "The depths of God," passed into the cant expression of the Gnostics, and it may be... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:6-13
Contents of the revelation. But the apostle claims "wisdom" for the gospel. The counterfeit has been exposed, and the genuine coin is now presented. And how does he proceed to verify his right to use a term that, in the estimation of all thinkers, commanded respect and admiration? He will honour the Word; he will restore its meaning and clear it of obscurity, nay, expand its significance and invest it with a charm not known before. Solomon had used his splendid intellect to give the word... read more