1 Corinthians 2:12

Now we have received— We, the true Apostles, or rather I; for though he speaks in the plural number to avoid ostentation, as they might interpret it, yet he is here justifying himself, and shewing the Corinthians, that none of them had reason to forsake and slight him, in order to follow and cry up their false apostle. That he speaks of himself, is plain from the next verse, compared with 1 Corinthians 2:1 and ch. 1 Corinthians 1:17.—As he puts "princes of the world," 1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 Corinthians 2:8 for the rulers of the Jews, so here he puts spirit of the world for the nation of the Jews; that worldly spirit wherewith they interpreted the Old Testament, and theprophesies of the Messiah and his kingdom. Locke.