And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. AND I - So I, I also, as one of the 'foolish, weak, and despised' instruments employed by God: 'glorying in the Lord,' not in man's wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:27). My mode... [ Continue Reading ]
_FOR I DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANY THING AMONG YOU, SAVE JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. I - the preacher: as describes the subject, and the mode of preaching. WEAKNESS - personal and bodily (; ; ; ). TREMBLING (cf. .) Not cowardly fear, but trembling anxiety to perform duty; anxious conscientiousness in contrast... [ Continue Reading ]
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: MY SPEECH - in private. PREACHING - in public (). Or, discourse on doctrines; preaching, literally, heralding, of facts. ENTICING - Greek, persuasive. MAN'S WISDOM - "m... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 nought: Yet the Gospel, so far from being at variance with "wisdom," is a wisdom infinitely higher than that of the world. WE SPEAK - resuming "we" (preachers, I... [ Continue Reading ]
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. WHICH - wisdom: the strongest proof of the natural man's destitution of heavenly wisdom. THE PRINCES OF THIS WORLD. Herod, Pilate, Annas, and Caiaphas represent the worldly gre... [ Continue Reading ]
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. BUT [ alla (G235)] - in strong contrast to "which none of the princes of this world knew." Paul says, "But God hath revealed them unto us... [ Continue Reading ]
But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. REVEALED ... BY ... SPIRIT. Inspiration of thoughts (so far as truth essential to salvation is concerned) makes the Christian (; ; ; ; ; ); that of words, the PROPHET (; 2 Samuel 23... [ Continue Reading ]
For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. WHAT MAN ... - literally, who of MEN knoweth the things of a MAN, except the spirit of that man? THINGS OF GOD KNOWETH NO MAN - rather, 'none knowe... [ Continue Reading ]
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 - the "spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience" (Ephesians 2:2). This spirit is natur... [ Continue Reading ]
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. ALSO - we not only know by the Holy Spirit, but we also speak the "things freely given to us of God" (1 Corinthians 2:12). THE HOLY SPIRIT. So... [ Continue Reading ]
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. NATURAL MAN, [ psuchikos (G5591)]. As contrasted with the spiritual man, he is one in whom the animal soul [psyche] overbears his... [ Continue Reading ]
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 is the man distinguished as he in whom the Spirit rules. In the unregenerate the spirit, the organ... [ Continue Reading ]
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. FOR - proof that the spiritual man "is judged of no man." In order to judge him, the natural man must 'know the mind, of the Lord.' But who of natural men 'knows' that? THAT HE MAY INSTRUCT HIM -... [ Continue Reading ]