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1 Corinthians 2:11
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.
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.
Verse 1 Corinthians 2:11. _FOR WHAT MAN KNOWETH THE THINGS OF A MAN_] The word ανθρωπων in the first clause is omitted by the _Codex_ _Alexandrinus_, and one other; and by _Athanasius, Cyril_, and _V...
FOR WHAT MAN ... - The design of this is, to illustrate what he had just said by a reference to the way in which man acquires the knowledge of himself. The purpose is to show that the Spirit has an ex...
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...
THE PROCLAMATION AND THE POWER (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)...
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...
SPIRIT. App-101.:6. THINGS. Add "also". NO MAN. no one. Greek. _oudeis._ BUT. save, as 1 Corinthians 2:2....
ἜΓΝΩΚΕΝ. So אABCDE. 11. ΤΊΣ ΓᾺΡ�. R.V., FOR WHO AMONG MEN? τὰ τοῦ�. R.V. _the things of the man_. So _the spirit of_ the _man_, not as A.V. _the spirit of man_. ἜΓΝΩΚΕΝ. There can be no doubt that...
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...
_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...
ΟΊΔΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΟΪ́ΔΑ (G1492) знать. Def. perf. со _знач. praes._ ΤΑ ΤΟΫ́ ΆΝΘΡΏΠΟΥ (G3588; G444) принадлежащее человеку; личные воспоминания, размышления, мотивы каждого человека; все мы...
KNOWETH NO MAN— _Knoweth no one._ These words must signify the perfect acquaintance with all the divine schemes and purposes which the Holy Spirit had, and which the Apostle's argument directly proves...
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,...
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...
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...
2:11 man (b-11) 'Man' here has the article, but the sense is this. what is in man's mind is not known of any but the spirit of the man himself, who has the thoughts; much more is it so with God....
THE SPIRIT OF MAN.. THE SPIRIT OF GOD] The two expressions are exactly parallel. The spirit of man is man's conscious self in thought: and the Spirit of God is His conscious Self in thought. 12, 13. R...
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...
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...
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...
WHAT MAN... — Better, _Who of men knoweth the things of a man? but the spirit of the man which is in him knoweth them._ THE THINGS OF GOD KNOWETH NO MAN. — These words cannot be taken as an assertion...
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 “...
“For amongst men, who knows (οἶδεν) the things of the man, except the spirit of the man that is within him? So also the things of God none has perceived (ἔγνωκεν), except the Spirit of God.” Far from...
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...
(10) For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the (l) spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. (10) He sets it forth in comparison, which...
_For what man? As the secrets of man's heart are known only to himself, so the mysteries of the divinity are known only to the Spirit, who is God, and who proceedeth from the Father and the Son. (Theo...
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...
“For what man knoweth the things of man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so the things of God hath no man known, but the Spirit of God.” To make intelligible to his readers this inward ac...
(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...
11._For what man knoweth? _Two different things he intends to teach here: _first_, that the doctrine of the Gospel cannot be understood otherwise than by the testimony of the Holy Spirit; and _secondl...
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...
FOR WHAT MAN KNOWETH THE THINGS OF A MAN,.... The thoughts of a man's heart, the conceptions of his mind, the schemes he is drawing there, his designs, purposes, and intentions; these can never be kno...
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. Ver. 11. _Save the Spirit, &c._] Man knows his inwar...
_But_ This ignorance fulfils what is written concerning the blessings of the Messiah's kingdom; _eye hath not seen_, &c. No merely natural or unenlightened man hath either seen, heard, or known; _the...
THE THINGS OF A MAN; his unrevealed thoughts. EVEN SO; as the unrevealed thoughts of a man are not known except to himself, so the unrevealed things of God are not known except to the Spirit of God;...
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...
FOR WHO AMONG MEN KNOWETH THE THINGS OF. MAN, SAVE THE SPIRIT OF THE MAN, WHICH IS IN HIM? EVEN SO THE THINGS OF GOD NONE KNOWETH, SAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD. 'For' -'Paul lays down the fundamental trut...
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...
Look, as it is with a man, no man knoweth his secret thoughts, and counsels, and meanings, save only his own soul that is within him; so it is as to the things of God, until God by his Spirit hath rev...
For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God....
Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Eleventh For no spirit given by God requires to be asked; but such a spirit having the power of Divinity speaks all things of itself, for it proceeds from above from th...
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‘For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God, except for the Spirit of God.' A man's true self and inner knowledge...
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...
1 Corinthians 2:11. FOR WHO AMONG MEN KNOWETH THE THINGS OF A MAN SAVE THE SPIRIT OF THE MAN WHICH IS IN HIM? EVEN SO THE THINGS OF GOD NONE KNOWETH SAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD. The relation of ‘the Spirit...
KNOWETH (οιδεν, εγνωκεν). Second perfect of root ιδ-, to see and so know, first perfect of γινωσκω, to know by personal experience, has come to know and still knows. See First John for a clear dist...
1 Corinthians 2:11 I. To give the adequate history of a religion you must first have believed it. This is our primary datum, and this means surely that the elements of that rational intelligibility, w...
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...
IT IS HIS OWN SPIRIT. He uses this as an illustration: your own spirit knows things about you which no one else can know. IN THE SAME WAY. Nothing of God's Plan and secret knowledge is unknown to God'...
_What man knoweth the things of a man?_ Those in the inner recesses if his being, which are buried in his heart and mind, as, _e.g_., his thoughts, resolutions, and intentions, and the foundation of t...
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 2:10; Jeremiah 17:9; Proverbs 14:10; Proverbs 20:27;...
Spirit [π ν ε υ μ α]. See on Romans 8:4. The things of God can be recognized only by the highest element of the human personality. They have not entered into the heart (kardia, see on Romans 1:21), bu...
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...
For what man knoweth the things of a man — All the inmost recesses of his mind; although men are all of one nature, and so may the more easily know one another. So the things of God knoweth no one but...