1 Corinthians 2:8

‘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 the wisdom of God, and thus they did not recognise the glory which came in the Lord Jesus, the glory of Christ. He was in the world as God's word and God's light, and the world did not know Him (John 1:9). Though they considered themselves wise and were themselves arrayed in splendour and glory, the rulers' foolishness was revealed in their crucifying the One Who was made to us the wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 1:30) and is ‘the Lord of glory', a glory more long lasting and greater far than theirs, and a glory which He provides for His own.

Their mind set was such that they were oblivious both to God's wisdom and the glory revealed in Christ. This is clear from the fact that in their extreme folly they crucified the Lord of glory, they sought to destroy the true glory. Nothing could reveal what they were better than that. And why did they do this? Because they were without the Spirit of God.