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1 CORINTHIANS 2:12 ko,smou
Influenced by a similar expression in ver. 1 Corinthians 2:6 (tou/
aivw/noj tou,tou) copyists added the demonstrative, producing...
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Verse 1 Corinthians 2:12. _NOW WE HAVE RECEIVED, NOT THE SPIRIT OF
THE WORLD_] We, who are the genuine apostles of Christ, have received
this Spirit of God, by which we know the deep things of God; a...
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NOW WE HAVE RECEIVED - We who are Christians; and especially we, the
apostles. The following verse shows that he had himself and the other
apostles chiefly in view; though it is true of all Christians...
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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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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...
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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...
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THE PROCLAMATION AND THE POWER (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)...
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HAVE. Omit.
WORLD. Greek. _kosmos._ App-129.
SPIRIT. App-101.
OF. by. App-104.
FREELY GIVEN. App-184.
OF. by. App-104....
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_Now we have received_ Literally, WE RECEIVED, i.e. when we became
disciples.
_that we might know_ The word here signifies to perceive, rather than
to gather by the exercise of the reason. Such thing...
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ἘΛΆΒΟΜΕΝ. We cannot press the strict sense of the aorist
here. See note on 1 Corinthians 2:16. The gift of the Spirit is not a
single, but a continuous act. Yet it is not a _completed_ act, which
woul...
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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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_THINGS FREELY GIVEN US OF GOD 1 CORINTHIANS 2:9-12:_ The benefits of
the gospel are beyond what could ever be imagined in this life and in
the life to come. Paul described gospel benefits saying, "Bu...
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ΤΌ ΠΝΕΎΜΑ ΤΟΫ́ ΚΌΣΜΟΥ (G4151; G2889) дух
мира. Качественный _gen._, дух, который
оживляет мир (Lenski).
ΈΛΆΒΟΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983)
принимать,
ΕΊΔΏΜΕΝ _perf. conj. act. от_ ΟΊΔΑ (G...
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DISCOURSE: 1941
INFLUENCES OF THE SPIRIT
1 Corinthians 2:12. _Now we have received, not the spirit of the
world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things
that are freely given to...
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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...
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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,...
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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given
to us of God.
WE HAVE RECEIVED, NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD -...
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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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2:12 Spirit (c-13) Note here again the difficulty, arising from
'spirit' used for cause and state, as to putting a large S to signify
the person of the Holy Spirit....
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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...
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THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD] i.e. the wisdom falsely so called, which
brought men no blessing. THE SPIRIT WHICH IS OF GOD] i.e. true
spiritual insight, which God gives by bestowing upon us a portion of
Hi...
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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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WE. — This must not be confined to the Apostles exclusively. Though
referring primarily to them, it includes all the members of the
Christian Church as one with its teachers and rulers. The “things
fr...
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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...
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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
“...
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ἡμεῖς δέ, “But _we_ ”: _cf._ the emphatic ἡμῖν of 1
Corinthians 2:10 (see note) and the ἡμεῖς δὲ of 1
Corinthians 1:23, standing in contrast with the σοφοὶ and
δυνατοὶ of the world. The κόσμος whose “...
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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...
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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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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...
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Now we have received, not the (m) spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; (11) that we might (n) know the things that are
freely given to us of God.
(m) The Spirit which we have received...
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“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given
to us of God:”
This verse is the development of the word _by th...
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With 1 Corinthians 2:10 the apostle passes to the development of the
second term of his theme: λαλοῦμεν, _we speak._ This wisdom,
being God's conception, and inaccessible to the mind of man, how can
P...
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(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...
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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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_THE SPIRIT OF PROMISE_
‘Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given
to us of God.’
1 Corinthians 2:12
Los...
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12._Now we have received, not the spirit of the world _He heightens by
contrast the certainty of which he had made mention. “The Spirit of
revelation,” says he, “which we have received, is not of the...
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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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NOW WE HAVE RECEIVED NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD,.... Meaning either
Satan, the god of the world, the spirit that is in it, and rules over
it; or the sinful carnal disposition of the men of the world,...
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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given
to us of God.
Ver. 12. _Not the spirit of the world_] The world...
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_Now we have received, not the spirit of the world_ Which suggests
worldly wisdom; the spirit that is in worldly, carnal people, and
which guides and governs them; a spirit which is earthly, sensual,...
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NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD; which could instruct us only in the
things of this world, and make us, like itself, earthly in all our
views and feelings.
MIGHT KNOWN; by his revelation.
THE THINGS THAT...
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NOW WE HAVE RECEIVED, NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD, BUT THE SPIRIT
WHICH IS OF GOD, THAT WE MIGHT KNOW THE THINGS THAT ARE FREELY GIVEN
TO US OF GOD.
While the attitude of the rulers of this world, bot...
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The revelation of the Spirit:...
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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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BUT WE RECEIVED, NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD, BUT THE SPIRIT WHICH IS
FROM GOD; THAT WE MIGHT KNOW THE THINGS THAT WERE FREELY GIVEN TO US
OF GOD.
'not the spirit of the world' -'spirit that belongs...
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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...
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By THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD some understand the devil, that evil spirit
which is in the world, and ruleth those that are worldly, carnal men:
others understand a mere human spirit, by which men underst...
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But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is
from God; that we might know the things that were freely given to us
of God. [As a man alone knows himself, so God alone knows him...
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A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
This is He who restrains insatiable desires, controls immoderate
lusts, quenches unlawful fires, conquers reckless impulses, repels
drunkenness, checks av...
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1 Corinthians 2:12 Now G1161 we G2249 received G2983 (G5627) not G3756
spirit G4151 world G2889 but G235
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‘But we received, not the spirit of the world but the Spirit of God,
that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.'
The contrast with the Spirit of God is the spirit of the world....
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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...
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1 Corinthians 2:12. NOW WE RECEIVED, NOT THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD, BUT
THE SPIRIT WHICH IS OF GOD; THAT WE MIGHT KNOW THE THINGS THAT ARE
FREELY GIVEN TO US OF GOD. Not only are the things themselves
‘...
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BUT WE
(ημεις δε). We Christians likeUS
(ημιν) in verse 1 Corinthians 2:10 of the revelation, but
particularly Paul and the other apostles.RECEIVED
(ελαβομεν). Second aorist active indicative o...
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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...
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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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WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED THIS WORLD'S SPIRIT. Paul contrasts _this world's
spirit_ (the demonic inspiration of the pagan prophets, such as Acts
16:16), with the Spirit sent by God. SO THAT we MAY KNOW ALL...
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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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_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 2:6; 1 Corinthians 3:22; 1 John 2:20; 1 John 2:27;...
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The spirit of the world [τ ο π ν ε υ μ α τ ο υ κ ο σ μ
ο υ]. For this use of pneuma, see on Romans 8:4, under 7. Kosmov
world, is used with the ethical sense. See on John 1:9, under 4, e,
The phrase m...
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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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Now we have received, not the spirit of the world — This spirit is
not properly received; for the men of the world always had it. But
Christians receive the Spirit of God, which before they had not....
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Observe here, 1. The apostle declares what spirit they had not
received, namely, the spirit they had not received, namely, the spirit
of the world: WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED THE SPIRIT OF THE WORLD: that i...