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1 Corinthians 2:6
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;
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;
Verse 1 Corinthians 2:6. _WE SPEAK WISDOM AMONG THEM THAT ARE PERFECT_] By the εν τοις τελειοις, _among those that are perfect_, we are to understand _Christians_ of the highest knowledge and attainm...
HOW BE IT - But δε de. This commences the “second” head or argument in this chapter, in which Paul shows that if human wisdom is missing in his preaching, it is not devoid of true, and solid, and even...
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...
HOWBEIT. But. SPEAK. App-121. THEM, &C. = the perfect. Greek. _teleios._ App-125. WORLD. age. App-129. NOR. Greek. _oude_. PRINCES. rulers. COME TO NOUGHT. are being brought to nought. Greek. _k...
_Howbeit we speak wisdom_ Is there, then, no wisdom possible for a Christian? no sphere for the exercise of those faculties of the intellect which we received from God? the hearer may say. Certainly,...
ΣΟΦΊΑΝ ΔῈ ΛΑΛΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ. Is there, then, no wisdom possible for a Christian? no sphere for the exercise of those faculties of the intellect which we received from God? the hearer may say. Certainly, says...
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...
ΔΈ (G1161) но. Павел противопоставляет мудрость своих речей мудрости речей оппонентов (Pearson), ΛΑΛΟΫ́ΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G3956) говорить. _Praes._ указывает на текущее действие или пр...
DISCOURSE: 1936 WISDOM OF THE GOSPEL 1 Corinthians 2:6. _We speak wisdom among them that are perfect_. THESE words appear, at first sight, to have an air of conceit and arrogance: and, if uttered by...
HOWBEIT, WE SPEAK WISDOM, &C.— The next argument the Apostle uses, to shew them that they had no reason to glory in their teachers, is, that the knowledge of the Gospel, was not attainable by our natu...
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,...
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 nought: Yet the Gospel, so far from being at variance with "wis...
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...
2:6 world, (n-13) world, (n-20) _ Aion_ . see ch. 1.20, Note c. In ver. 6 'world' has a moral signification. see Ephesians 2:2 ....
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...
WISDOM] Christianity has a wisdom of its own. While it is centred in a Person, it is capable of being expressed in the terms of philosophy, and is in harmony with all that is best in human reasoning a...
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...
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...
HOWBEIT WE SPEAK WISDOM. — Nevertheless, there is a wisdom in the gospel. The assertion is in the Greek a more striking contrast to 1 Corinthians 2:4 than appears in the English. In the original (1 Co...
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...
Σοφίαν δὲ λαλοῦμεν κ. τ. λ.: “(there is) a wisdom, however, (that) we speak amongst the full-grown”. The anarthrous, predicative σοφίαν asserts that to be “wisdom” which in ironical deference to the w...
§ 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...
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...
(4) Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are (e) perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the (f) princes of this world, that come to nought: (4) Another argument taken from the nature of...
Wisdom among the perfect. That is, when we first came amongst you, you were incapable of understanding the great mysteries of our religion: we therefore preached to you Christ crucified; (Calmet) but...
“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 nought.” The δέ is rather restrictive than adversative. It is int...
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...
6._We speak wisdom _Lest he should appear to despise wisdom, as _unlearned and ignorant men _(Acts 4:13) condemn learning with a sort of barbarian ferocity, he adds, that he is not devoid of _that _wi...
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...
HOWBEIT WE SPEAK WISDOM,.... Though the wise philosophers among the Gentiles accounted the Gospel foolishness; and though the apostle, by an ironical concession, had called the ministry of it the fool...
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 nought: Ver. 6. _Wisdom among the perfect_] Or those that are gro...
_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...
WISDOM; that which is truly wise in the estimation of God and those who are like him. THEM THAT ARE PERFECT; who have maturity of knowledge and spiritual discernment, and are thus prepared to receive...
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...
WE SPEAK WISDOM, HOWEVER, AMONG THEM THAT ARE FULLGROWN: YET. WISDOM NOT OF THIS WORLD, NOR OF THE RULERS OF THIS WORLD, WHO ARE COMING TO NOUGHT: 'We speak wisdom' -'Yet we do speak wisdom' (NASV)....
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...
Lest what the apostle had seemed to speak before in defamation of wisdom, should reflect upon the gospel, and give some people occasion to justify against it their impious charge of folly, the apostle...
We [as an inspired apostle] _speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought_ [Paul here begins to corre...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I This, too, was done by Paul in these words," But we speak wisdom among them that are perfect."[116] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III wherefore also Paul declared,...
1 Corinthians 2:6 However G1161 speak G2980 (G5719) wisdom G4678 among G1722 mature G5046 yet G1161 not G3756
‘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...
1 Corinthians 2:6. HOWBEIT WE SPEAK WISDOM AMONG THE PERFECT. This is a favourite Pauline word, having one well-defined sense, with only varying shades according to the subject treated of. With refere...
AMONG THE PERFECT (εν τοις τελειοις). Paul is not here drawing a distinction between exoteric and esoteric wisdom as the Gnostics did for their initiates, but simply to the necessary difference in t...
PERFECT That is, full grown. (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
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...
YET I DO SPEAK WISDOM. So far Paul has said that his message is "nonsense," _out of step_ with the wisdom of this world. Yet at the same time, he makes it plain that his message (the gospel) is in the...
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...
_Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect._ This wisdom that he speaks among the perfect, that is, the faithful, is Christian wisdom, and is concerned with the Cross of Christ, with grace,...
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 1:18; 1 Corinthians 1:19; 1 Corinthians 1:28; 1 Corinthians 14:20;...
Wisdom. Emphatic. Lest his depreciation of worldly wisdom should expose him and his companions to the charge of not preaching wisdom at all, he shows that they do preach wisdom, though not of a worldl...
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...
Yet we speak wisdom — Yea, the truest and most excellent wisdom. Among the perfect — Adult, experienced Christians. By wisdom here he seems to mean, not the whole Christian doctrine, but the most subl...
Our apostle here proceeds in discoursing to the Corinthins of the excellency of his ministry amongst them, to obviate the contempt which some might cast upon it for want of human eloquence, sublimity...