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Verse 1 Corinthians 2:5. _THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT STAND_] That the
illumination of your souls and your conversion to God might appear to
have nothing _human_ in it: your belief, therefore, of the...
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THAT YOUR FAITH - That is, that your belief of the divine origin of
the Christian religion.
SHOULD NOT STAND - Greek, “should not be;” that is, should not
rest upon this; or be sustained by this. God...
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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
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1 CORINTHIANS 1:18 TO 1 CORINTHIANS 2:5. THE CROSS, FOLLY TO THE
WORLD, IS THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD. Paul now explains and justifies
1 Corinthians 1:17_ b_, which to Greek readers must have soun
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THE PROCLAMATION AND THE POWER (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)...
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So, brothers, when I came to you, I did not come announcing God's
secret to you with any outstanding gifts of rhetoric or wisdom, for it
was my deliberate decision to know nothing among you except Jes...
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THAT. In order that. Greek. _hina._
FAITH App-150.
STAND. be.
MEN. App-123....
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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...
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_JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1-5:_ When Paul
preached the gospel at Corinth he did not use big words or try to
sound wise. He spoke to them about salvation in everyday language tha...
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Ή _praes. conj. act. от_ ΕΊΜΊ (G1510) быть. _Conj._ с
'ΊΝΑ (G2443) выражает цель,
ΈΝ (G1722) в. Предлог указывает на среду
или область, в которой коренится вера
(RP)....
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DISCOURSE: 1935
APOSTOLIC PREACHING
1 Corinthians 2:4. _My speech and my preaching was not with enticing
words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of
power: that your faith should...
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THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT STAND, &C.— Their faith being built
wholly on divine revelation and miracles, whereby all human
abilitieswere shut out, there could be no reason for any of them to
boast the...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 1
Unsophisticated but Dynamic (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)
2 When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the
testimony of God in lofty words or Wis. 2:1-24 For...
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That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the
power of God.
STAND IN THE WISDOM OF MEN - rest on, owe its origin and continuance
to, it....
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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...
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2:5 stand (m-6) Lit. 'be.'...
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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...
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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...
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CHAPTER 4
THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING
In the preceding section of this Epistle Paul introduced the subject
which was prominent in his thoughts as he wrote: the divided state of
the Corinthian Churc...
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§ 6. PAUL'S CORINTHIAN MISSION, Paul has justified his refusing to
preach ἐν σοφίᾳ λόγου on two grounds: (1) the nature of
the Gospel, (2) the constituency of the Church of Cor [287]; _it_ was
no phil...
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The Apostle's purpose in discarding the orator's and the sophist's
arts was this: “that your faith might not rest in wisdom of men, but
in (the) power of God”. The κἀγὼ ἦλθον of 1 Corinthians
2:1 domi...
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GOD'S GLORY IN MEN'S WEAKNESS
1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Corinthians 2:1
Like the sons of Jesse before Samuel, so do the successive regiments
on which the world relies pass before Christ. The wise, the mi...
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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...
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Preaching the Crucified Christ
Paul did not go to Corinth as an orator or philosopher. Instead, he
preached Jesus as the Anointed, or Christ, who was crucified. The
apostle admitted his appearance and...
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(3) That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the
power of God.
(3) And he tells the Corinthians that he did it for their great
profit, because they might by this know manifestly...
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_That your faith, &c. Had we employed the subtleties, the reasonings,
and eloquence of men, some might perhaps be induced to believe that
you had been seduced by artifice. But none can reasonably say...
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2:1-5.
St. Paul applies to his own ministry at Corinth the principle which he
has just laid down, and shows that he has been faithful to it. This is
the conclusion of the whole passage....
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“And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of
wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; 5. that your
faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of...
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῞Ινα, _in order that_, indicates the apostle's object in the
course he has followed. He was not ignorant that a faith, founded on
logical arguments, could be shaken by other arguments of the same
natu...
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(1) And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of
speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. (2) For
I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Chris...
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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...
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5._That your faith should not be in the wisdom of men. To be _is used
here as meaning _to consist _His meaning, then, is, that the
Corinthians derived this advantage from his having preached Christ
am...
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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...
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THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT STAND,.... "Or be in the wisdom of men, but
in the power of God". The Spirit of God directed him, and he under his
influence chose, and by his assistance pursued this way of...
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That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the
power of God.
Ver. 5. _That your faith, &c._] A human testimony can breed but a
human faith. Aaron's bells were of pure gold; our who...
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_For I determined not to know any thing_, &c. To act as one who knew
nothing, or to waive all my other knowledge, and not to preach any
thing _save Jesus Christ and him crucified_ That is, what he tau...
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NOT STAND IN THE WISDOM OF MEN; not rest on human, but on divine
testimony; and be produced not by human, but by divine power. The more
deeply ministers of the gospel feel their own insufficiency, and...
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THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT STAND IN THE WISDOM OF MEN, BUT IN THE
POWER OF GOD.
Paul has praised the preaching of the wisdom of the Cross. He now
shows what interest he, in his own person and in his o...
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THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS.
Paul's preaching not in man's wisdom:...
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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...
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STAND:
_ Gr._ be...
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THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT STAND IN THE WISDOM OF MEN, BUT IN THE
POWER OF GOD.
'that' -the purpose of God.
'STAND' -'rest' (NASV), should not be based upon.
'And he tells us he didn't try to make...
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1-5 Christ, in his person, and offices, and sufferings, is the sum
and substance of the gospel, and ought to be the great subject of a
gospel minister's preaching, but not so as to leave out other pa...
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FAITH properly signifieth our assent to a thing that is told us, and
because it is told us. If the revelation be from man, it is no more
than a human faith. If it be from God, and we believe the thing...
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that your faith should not stand in [should not be based upon] _the
wisdom of men, but in the power of God_....
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1 Corinthians 2:5 that G2443 your G5216 faith G4102 should G5600 not
G3361 be G5600 (G5753) in G1722 wisdom
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‘And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling,
and my word and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom,
but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your...
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THAT YOUR FAITH SHOULD NOT STAND
(ινα η πιστις υμων μη η). Purpose of God, but μη η
is "not be" merely. The only secure place for faith to find a rest is
in God's power, not in the wisdom of men. O...
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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...
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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...
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YOUR FAITH, THEN. This whole paragraph grows out of "When I came" in 1
Corinthians 2:1. He points back to his original work at Corinth. Paul
was God's spokesman; therefore he acted so that God alone w...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1 NOT... WITH LOFTY SPEECH OR
WISDOM. Paul avoided Greek rhetoric. Instead he focused on the message
of the cross. He wanted the Corinthians to trust in Christ, n...
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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...
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_That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the
power of God._ Our preaching is to be of the kind just mentioned, so
that your faith, _i.e._, your conversion to the faith of Christ,...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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1 Corinthians 1:17; 1 Corinthians 3:6; 2 Corinthians 4:7; 2
Corinthians 6:7;...
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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...
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That your faith might not be built on the wisdom or power of man, but
on the wisdom and power of God....