Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1 Corinthians 2:15
Is judged of no man] The unregenerate man cannot estimate the spiritual man's experiences and aspirations: he is only bewildered when he hears these things mentioned.
Is judged of no man] The unregenerate man cannot estimate the spiritual man's experiences and aspirations: he is only bewildered when he hears these things mentioned.
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Verse 1 Corinthians 2:15. _BUT HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL JUDGETH ALL THINGS_] He who has the mind of Christ discerns and judges of all things spiritual: yet he himself is not discerned by the mere animal...
BUT HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL - The man who is enlightened by the Holy Spirit in contradistinction from him who is under the influence of the senses only. JUDGETH - Greek: “Discerns.” (margin); the same w...
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...
But God revealed it through his Spirit, for the Spirit explores all things, even the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of the man unless the spirit of the man which is in him? So no on...
THE PROCLAMATION AND THE POWER (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)...
JUDGETH. discerneth. JUDGED. As discerned, above....
_But he that is spiritual judgeth all things_ The word which is used in this and the preceding verse, which is translated _discerned_in the last verse, in the text of this verse by _judgeth_, and in t...
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...
[μὲν] before ΠΆΝΤΑ. Om. ACDFG Vetus Lat., Vulg., Peshito. B inserts it. The whole verse is omitted in א, no doubt from the repetition of ἀνακρίνεται at the end of this and the preceding verse. 15. Ὁ Δ...
_BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 2:13-16:_ Paul wanted the Corinthians to know that the words that he spoke to them were Spirit inspired words. They were not words that he thought up by h...
ΠΆΝΤΑ _асс. pl. от_ ΠΆΣ (G350) весь; здесь: все, все вещи. Духовный человек способен рассматривать и оценивать все, потому что он не только имеет вдохновение, чтобы понимать то, что видит; он еще и об...
DISCOURSE: 1943 ADVANTAGES OF THE SPIRITUAL MAN 1 Corinthians 2:15. _He that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may...
BUT THE NATURAL MAN, &C.— The natural man and the spiritual man are opposed by St. Paul in these verses; the one signifying a man who has no higher principles to build on, than those of natural reason...
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,...
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL - literally, 'the spiritual (man).' In the Greek is 'A' (not "the") natural man. The spiritual...
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...
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...
HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL. — The spiritual man judges all spiritual truth, but he himself is judged by none who are not spiritual. (See 1 Corinthians 14:29; 1 John 4:1.)...
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...
to 1 Corinthians 3:2. § 8. THE REVEALING SPIRIT. The world's rulers committed the frightful crime of “crucifying the Lord of glory,” because in fact they have only “the spirit of the world,” whereas “...
“But the spiritual man tries (tests) everything” a maxim resembling, perhaps designedly, the Stoic dicta concerning “the wise man”. Paul sees “in the Πνεῦμα, the Divine power creatively working in the...
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...
Only the Spirit Knows No one can know the inner secrets of a man without the spirit (inner man) of that man revealing them. In a similar manner, only the Spirit of God can reveal God's mysteries. That...
(14) But he that is spiritual (r) judgeth all things, yet (15) he himself is judged of (s) no man. (14) He amplifies the matter by opposites. (r) Understands and discerns. (15) The wisdom of the fl...
But the sensual man, &c. They who are led away by sensual pleasures, do not even perceive or understand spiritual things; they seem foolish to them, and a folly to seek after them; because such things...
“But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man; 16. for who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of the Lord.” 1Co 2:6 supp...
1 Corinthians 2:14-16 . We come to the development of the third term: _among the perfect._...
(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...
_SPIRITUAL JUDGMENT_ ‘But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.’ 1 Corinthians 2:15 It is sometimes said that the evidence for the revelation made to man by o...
15._But the spiritual man judgeth all things. _Having stripped of all authority man’s carnal judgment, he now teaches, that _the spiritual _alone are fit judges as to this matter, inasmuch as God is k...
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...
BUT HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL,.... Meaning not any particular individual person, not the pope of Rome, as his adherents vainly imagine, whom they fancy to be a supreme and infallible judge in things spirit...
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. Ver. 15. _Judgeth all things_] By his spirit of discerning, 1 Corinthians 14:2, his spiritual senses exercised to disc...
1 Cor. 2:15, 16. "For he that is spiritual judgeth all things; but he himself is judged of no man." He that has the Spirit of God to teach him truth, he is not in those things subject to the judgment...
_But he that is spiritual_ Whose mind is enlightened, and his heart renewed by the Spirit of God; _judgeth_ Or rather discerneth; _all things_ Namely, all the things of God whereof we have been speaki...
HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL; he that is born of the Spirit, and therefore minds the things of the Spirit. Romans 8:5. JUDGETH ALL THINGS; discerneth aright all spiritual things, loves their excellence, and...
BUT HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL JUDGETH ALL THINGS, YET HE HIMSELF IS JUDGED OF NO MAN....
The Word and spiritual discernment:...
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...
JUDGETH: Or, discerneth JUDGED: Or, discerned...
BUT HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL JUDGETH ALL THINGS, AND HE HIMSELF IS JUDGED OF NO MAN. 'spiritual' -the person who accepts the revelation from the Spirit, i.e. the person who believes and has embraced the...
10-16 God has revealed true wisdom to us by his Spirit. Here is a proof of the Divine authority of the Holy Scriptures, 2 Peter 1:21. In proof of the Divinity of the Holy Ghost, observe, that he know...
OLBGrk; HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL, in this verse, is opposed to _the natural man, _ in the former verse, pneumatikov to qucikov. So that by _spiritual_ here is understood, he that is taught by the Spirit o...
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I and again: "He that is spiritual judgeth all things."[110] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV He therefore (i.e., the spiritual man) sifts and tries them all, but he...
1 Corinthians 2:15 But G1161 spiritual G4152 judges G350 (G5719) G3303 things G3956 yet G1161 himself G846
THIS MESSAGE IS REVEALED TO MEN BY THE ONE HOLY SPIRIT ENLIGHTENING THE MIND AND HEART (2:9-16). 1 Corinthians 2:9 are connecting verses. They confirm what has been said about the wonder of what God...
‘But the spiritual one (pneumatikos) judges all things, and he himself is judged of no man. For “who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.' The...
1 Corinthians 2:15. BUT HE THAT IS SPIRITUAL JUDGETH ALL THINGS not only those spiritual things which the natural man cannot judge, but also those which belong to the natural man's own domain, and whi...
JUDGETH ALL THINGS (ανακρινε παντα). The spiritual man (ο πνευματικος) is qualified to sift, to examine, to decide rightly, because he has the eyes of his heart enlightened (Ephesians 1:18) and is n...
1 Corinthians 2:15 _(with 1 Timothy 3:15)_ The religious or spiritual man, then, is characterised not by taking his judgment from other men, not by living on a decision formed by others, but by a per...
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...
THE MAN WHO HAS THE SPIRIT. The Spirit is God's gift to each Christian (_see notes on_ Acts 2:39; Acts 5:32). The man who has the Spirit is not blinded and biased by his human nature; therefore he has...
_But he that is spiritual judgeth all things._ He is called spiritual, as we have seen, who follows faith and wisdom and the teaching of the Holy Spirit, who has the Holy Spirit as the ruler of his so...
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 14:37; 1 Corinthians 3:1; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 John 4:1;...
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...
But the spiritual man — He that hath the Spirit. Discerneth all the things of God whereof we have been speaking. Yet he himself is discerned by no man — No natural men. They neither understand what he...
As if the apostle had said, "Although the NATURAL MAN, who acteth only by principles of human reason, RECEIVETH NOT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT, NOR CAN KNOW THEM BY ANY STUDY OF HIS OWN, because they ar...