George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
1 Corinthians 2:8
It appears from the gospel, that they suspected Jesus might be the Son of God; but the major part of interpreters judge from this text, that they had not a certain knowledge. (Bible de Vence)
It appears from the gospel, that they suspected Jesus might be the Son of God; but the major part of interpreters judge from this text, that they had not a certain knowledge. (Bible de Vence)
Verse 1 Corinthians 2:8. _WHICH NONE OF THE PRINCES OF THIS WORLD KNEW_] Here it is evident that _this world_ refers to the Jewish state, and to the degree of knowledge in that state: and the _rulers_...
WHICH NONE OF THE PRINCES - None of those rulers who were engaged in the crucifixion of the Messiah, referring both to the Jewish rulers, and the Roman governor. KNEW - They did not perceive or apprec...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Apostle's Preaching. (1 Corinthians 2:1)._ 2. The Revelation of the Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:6). 3. The Helplessness and Ignorance of the Natural Man. (1 Corin
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...
THE PROCLAMATION AND THE POWER (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)...
True, we speak wisdom among those who are mature--but it is a wisdom which does not belong to this world, nor to the rulers of this world whose extinction is inevitable. But we speak the wisdom of God...
NONE. Greek. _oudeis._ KNEW. App-132. HAD THEY. if (Greek. _ei_. App-118. a) they had. THE LORD. App-98. OF GLORY. Compare Acts 7:2.Ephesians 1:17; Colossians 1:27;...
_which none of the princes of this world knew_ These words seem to be written for the instruction of the class of persons who attach importance to the opinions of those high in position and influence...
ἫΝ ΟΥ̓ΔΕῚΣ ΤΩ͂Ν�. These words seem to be written for the instruction of the class of persons who attach importance to the opinions of those high in position and influence—the princes, or rather _ruler...
1 Corinthians 2:1-16. THE WISDOM OF THE GOSPEL DISCERNIBLE BY THE SPIRITUAL FACULTIES ALONE The Apostle now begins to justify his preaching. It was not that of one skilled in the fashionable argumenta...
_WE SPEAK THE WISDOM OF GOD 1 CORINTHIANS 2:6-8:_ Paul acknowledged that he did use wisdom in speaking to the spiritually mature. However it was not "the wisdom of this world." The wisdom of the world...
ΈΓΝΩΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать, признавать, распознавать. _Perf._ изображает длительные результаты, ΈΓΝΩΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act., ind._ в противоречащем факту _conj._ (BD, 182; GGBB, 6...
DISCOURSE: 1938 IGNORANCE OF THE GOSPEL, FATAL 1 Corinthians 2:8. _Had they known if, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory_. IT has been supposed, that there is such a transcendent excelle...
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE CRUCIFIED— The force of the original is, _They would not by any means._ Compare Luke 23:34. St. Paul, in the close of the foregoing verse, opposes the true glory of a Christian, to...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Undiscoverable but Understandable (1 Corinthians 2:6-16) 6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age,...
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. WHICH - wisdom: the strongest proof of the natural man's destitution of heaven...
21 To this day the great, the noble, and the wise are a small minority among the true saints of God. It is a matter of extreme thankfulness that this is so. If high birth or wisdom or any other attain...
2:8 age (o-8) Or 'worlds' (ver. 7), 'world' (ver. 8). I add this in note to keep up the connection with 'world' in ver. 6....
THE NATURE OF ST. PAUL'S PREACHING 1-5. Paraphrase. 'When I visited you in Corinth I made no attempt to reconcile my message with your Greek philosophy, (2) but kept to the proclamation of the facts o...
PARAPHRASE. 'There is indeed a wisdom with which the facts of the gospel are in harmony and which we declare to those who are ripe to receive it. (7, 8) It is not the wisdom of this world, for that le...
THE LORD OF GLORY] The glory is His; and He came to bestow it upon us, to bringus to the perfection of our nature....
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 2 WHAT PAUL *PREACHED 2:1-5 V1 Christian *brothers and *sisters, when I came to you I did not come with clever words or great ideas. I *pr...
THEY WOULD NOT HAVE CRUCIFIED. — The conduct of the princes and rulers of this world, alike Jewish and Gentile, illustrates and proves the previous assertion (John 8:19; John 19:9). LORD OF GLORY. —...
CHAPTER 5 DIVINE WISDOM IN the preceding paragraph Paul has explained why he had proclaimed the bare facts regarding Christ and His crucifixion and trusted to the Cross itself to impress the Corinth...
§ 7. THE GOSPEL CONSIDERED AS WISDOM. So far Paul has been maintaining that his message is a “folly,” with which “wisdom of word” is out of keeping; yet all the while he makes it felt that it is wisdo...
ἣν οὐδεὶς κ. τ. λ.: “which (wisdom) none of the rulers of this age has perceived” all blind to the significance of the rise of Christianity. ἔγνωκεν, a pf., approaching the pr [351] sense (_novi_) whi...
GOD'S WISDOM SPIRITUALLY REVEALED 1 Corinthians 2:6 The perfect are those who are full grown and matured in Christian experience. They need strong meat. For them there are blessed unveilings of the s...
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 im...
The Spirit Reveals God's Wisdom Paul indicated he was ready to speak with wisdom from God if his listeners were ready to hear it. However, he would not speak with a worldly wisdom, which would have re...
(7) Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known [it], they would not have crucified the (h) Lord of glory. (7) He takes away another objection: why then, how comes it to pass tha...
“which none of the princes of this world knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;” The idea of wisdom being that which dominates the entire passage, the pronoun ἥν...
The apostle describes wisdom, of which he speaks from the viewpoint of its superhuman origin (1 Corinthians 2:6-7), then from that of its impenetrable obscurity to the natural understanding (1 Corinth...
(6) Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught: (7) But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
8._None of the princes of this world knew _If you supply the words _by their own discernment_, the statement would not be more applicable to them than to the generality of mankind, and the very lowest...
It was in this spirit that Paul had come among them at first; he would know nothing but Christ, [2] and Christ in His humiliation and abasement, object of contempt to senseless men. His speech was not...
WHICH NONE OF THE PRINCES OF THIS WORLD KNEW,.... Meaning not the devils, as some have thought, who had they known what God designed to do by the death of Christ, would never have been concerned in br...
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known _it_, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. Ver. 8. _Which none of the princes_] He calleth the Pharisees and philosophers...
_Howbeit, we speak wisdom_ Yea, the truest and most excellent wisdom: for the subject matter of our preaching is the most wise contrivance and counsel of God concerning the salvation of mankind by Chr...
All persons, however great their advantages, who are not taught by the Holy Spirit, are exceedingly ignorant of divine things. Truths are plainly revealed of which they have no just conception, becaus...
WHICH NONE OF THE PRINCES OF THIS WORLD KNEW; FOR HAD THEY KNOWN IT, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY....
The Gospel itself true wisdom:...
It was through Paul that the Corinthians had been brought to God; and he here reminds them that when he first came there, he had avoided the use of high-sounding speech and intellectual arguments: it...
WHICH NONE OF THE RULERS OF THIS WORLD HATH KNOWN: FOR HAD THEY KNOWN IT, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY: 'which' -i.e. which wisdom of God. 'NONE OF THE RULERS OF THIS WORLD HATH...
6-9 Those who receive the doctrine of Christ as Divine, and, having been enlightened by the Holy Spirit, have looked well into it, see not only the plain history of Christ, and him crucified, but the...
WHICH NONE OF THE PRINCES OF THIS WORLD KNEW; which Divine wisdom neither Caiaphas, nor Pontius Pilate, nor any considerable number of the rulers of this age, whether amongst the Jews or amongst the h...
which none of the rulers of this world hath known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory [their conduct proved their ignorance even as Jesus asserted-- Luke 23:34]:...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians but rather of those who "killed the Lord of glory."[87] Epistle of Ignatius to the Philippians For if the Lord were a mere man, possessed of a soul and body only...
1 Corinthians 2:8 which G3739 none G3762 rulers G758 this G5127 age G165 knew G1097 (G5758) for G1487...
‘Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are perfect. But a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world which are coming to nought. But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, even the wisdom...
‘Which none of the rulers of this world know, for if they had known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.' This refers back in his mind to both ‘wisdom' and ‘glory'. They did not know th...
1 Corinthians 2:8. WHICH (WISDOM) NONE OF THE PRINCES OF THIS WORLD KNOWETH: FOR HAD THEY KNOWN IT, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE CRUCIFIED THE LORD OF GLORY (as He is also called in James 2:1) inflicting hereb...
KNOWETH (εγνωκεν). Has known, has discerned, perfect active indicative of γινωσκω. They have shown amazing ignorance of God's wisdom.FOR HAD THEY KNOWN IT (ε γαρ εγνωσαν). Condition of the second...
1 Corinthians 2:6 Mystery Revealed. I. The redemption of Jesus Christ is a great mystery of the Divine thought and heart. The Apostle uses a singular term to designate those to whom the revelation is...
CONTENTS: Christian revelation not indebted to human wisdom. Spiritual verities not discoverable to human wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The Christian on his knees ca...
1 Corinthians 2:2. _I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified._ That is, to know him in the glory of his person, as revealed in the oracles of truth. “I and the...
NONE OF THE RULERS. This points to the Jewish and Roman rulers who nailed Christ to the cross. They were completely ignorant of God's wisdom and plan. The stupidity of the philosophers in rejecting "C...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 2:6 God’s Spirit bridges the gap between the deep things of God and the human heart, graciously preparing human beings to understand the message of the cross. See a...
_Which none of the princes of this world knew._ The pronoun is better referred to _glory_ than to wisdom, and the sense is: if this wisdom, or rather this glory and its being predestined in Christ, ha...
CHAPTER II. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He proceeds to exalt the spiritual wisdom of Christ above all natural and animal wisdom. Therefore he says: I. That he knew and preached nothing but Christ cruci...
_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 proce...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1 _St. Paul's own method._ 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1 AND I; "I too;" I in accordance with God's method. WHEN I CAME TO YOU. The date of his first visit was in A.D. 52, an
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God (1 Corinthians 2:1). Paul didn't come as one of the Corinthian philosopher...
1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 Timothy 1:13; 2 Corinthians 3:14;...
Lord of glory. The Lord whose attribute is glory. Compare Psalms 29:1; Acts 7:2; Ephesians 1:17; James 2:1....
PAUL THE PREACHER 1 Corinthians 2:1 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 prea...
Had they known it — That wisdom. They would not have crucified — Punished as a slave. The Lord of glory — The giving Christ this august title, peculiar to the great Jehovah, plainly shows him to be th...
How could Paul say the rulers of this world did not know Christ, when Christ came before them at His trial? PROBLEM: The apostle affirms that “none of the rulers of this age knew [Christ]; for had th...
That is, which divine neither Caiphas, nor Herod, nor Pontius Pilate, nor any of the Jewish or Gentile rulers, did understand. Where note, The apostle calls the learned rabbis, the admired philosophe...