Verse 15
15. This wisdom Two counter pictures of the opposite wisdoms in 15-18. There is a proud wisdom that boasts of its worldly value, and knows how to fight its way and beat all before it. Whence came it?
Not from above It is not the wisdom revealed from God by the holy Jesus. And what is it? Its threefold character is sketched in three terrible words. Man in ascending grades is body, soul, and spirit. See note on 1 Corinthians 15:44. In ascending scale man is corporeal, soulical, spiritual, and by the spiritual, angel-like. In descending scale he is earthly =corporeal; sensual =soulical, animal; spiritual=demoniac, devilish. This wisdom belongs to the descending scale; descending to the infernal by an awful anticlimax of wickedness and woe. Plenty of this wisdom rules among the rulers of this world. Thence come partisan politics, unprincipled diplomacies, and the wars and fightings of James 4:1.
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