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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:1-16

The apostle reminds the Corinthian Christians that when he first came to them he did not come with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, but with "the Word of the Cross." Yet there must be no foolish imagining that there is no wisdom, or that the Christian teacher has no deep and sublime subjects with which to deal. The apostle says, "We speak wisdom, however." And yet the wisdom was such as could be taught only among those who were full grown. Babes and feeble ones in Christ could not be led... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:1-16

Paul the Preacher 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Apostle, Paul, now is speaking of the kind of an entrance he had among the Corinthians. He had been very happy to move among them and preach Christ Now he is presenting to them his own ideals as a preacher. It is not alone to the Corinthians that Paul discusses his message and his ministry. To the Thessalonians he wrote, "Ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake." Again he says, "For yourselves, brethren, know our... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:1-16

Christ Crucified For Us And The New Birth Through the Spirit Are the Two Central Foundations of Christianity (1:10-4:21). Paul begins this section by revealing his concern that the Corinthians are in danger of splitting up into different parties around the teaching of certain leading teachers (1 Corinthians 1:10-17), and concentrating on secondary aspects of that teaching, rather than being united around the one central truth of Christ crucified, the one fact which is central to the Christian... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:9-16

This Message Is Revealed To Men by the One Holy Spirit Enlightening the Mind and Heart (2:9-16). 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 are connecting verses. They confirm what has been said about the wonder of what God has done, and lead in to Paul’s explanation of how God brings it home to men. read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:14

‘Now the natural man (man in Adam, the animal man, the man of this world, the man without the Spirit, man as he is without God) does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, because they are spiritually discerned (examined, considered, assessed, judged).’ In contrast the ‘natural man’ (‘the first man’ as in Adam - 1 Corinthians 15:47) without the Spirit cannot receive them, he does not accept them because his receptors are blocked. They are dead (Ephesians... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:6-16

1 Corinthians 2:6-Nehemiah : . Yet there Is a Christian Wisdom Revealed by God’ s Spirit.— Yet there is a true wisdom of which the Christian teachers speak to those who are mature; not a wisdom of this world or of the angels who are its rulers and are coming to nought, but God’ s wisdom in a mystery now disclosed, a hidden wisdom predestined before time to secure our perfection; not known to the world-rulers, who otherwise would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. By “ rulers of the world”... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 Corinthians 2:14

There are great disputes here, who is meant by the natural man, qucikov anyrwpov. Some think that by the natural man here is meant the carnal man: thus, 1 Corinthians 15:44, the natural body is opposed to the spirtiual body; besides, they say, that in the constant phrase of holy writ, man, who is made up of flesh and spirit, as his essential parts, hath constantly his denomination from one of them, and all men in the world are either carnal or spiritual, and that the Greek word ψυχη signifies... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:1-16

CRITICAL NOTES(For many points, see Homiletic Analysis.)1 Corinthians 2:1. I.—Slightly emphatic; q.d. “I was myself also in complete harmony of spirit and method with the lines of God’s procedure” (as set out in 1 Corinthians 1:17-31). This verse takes up the personal thread from 1 Corinthians 1:17. Speech.—Lit. “word.” Compare with 1 Corinthians 1:18, 1 Corinthians 4:20, inter alia. Proclaiming.—No more; that is his function, simple and restricted. Testimony.—Notice the striking and... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:6-16

1 Corinthians 2:6-16 The Gospel and the Intellect. I. The natural man in Paul's eyes is like an undeveloped organism. A man as he grows, in the true sense of growing, as he attains his full stature or perfection, becomes spiritual. The natural man is stunted; growth has been in some abnormal way arrested. The natural man only exists to become the spiritual man, just as a chrysalis only exists to become a butterfly. Who are the natural men nowadays? (1) Those who tell us that matter can explain... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 2:14

1 Corinthians 2:14 The Spiritual Life. I. If we cast our eyes over the world of human things, it cannot fail to strike us that there are certain inevitable classifications of mankind depending immediately upon the constitution of human nature. Thus you may classify men by their bodily gifts and graces, distinguishing them as the strong and vigorous, on the one hand, who scarcely know the meaning of pain or bodily weakness, who would scorn to ask if this present life, which is to them so glad a... read more

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