Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
1 Corinthians 2:4
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1 CORINTHIANS 2:4 peiqoi/@j# sofi,aj @lo,goij# {C} Of the eleven different variant readings in this passage, those that read avnqrwpi,nhj before or after sofi,aj (ac A C P Y...
Verse 1 Corinthians 2:4. _AND MY SPEECH_] ο λογος μου, My _doctrine_; the _matter_ of my preaching. _AND MY PREACHING_] το κηρυγμα μου, My proclamation, my _manner_ of recommending the grand but simp...
AND MY SPEECH - The word “speech” here - if it is to be distinguished from “preaching” - refers, perhaps, to his more private reasonings; his preaching to his public discourses. NOT WITH ENTICING WORD...
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
1 CORINTHIANS 1:18 TO 1 CORINTHIANS 2:5. THE CROSS, FOLLY TO THE WORLD, IS THE POWER AND WISDOM OF GOD. Paul now explains and justifies 1 Corinthians 1:17_ b_, which to Greek readers must have soun
So, brothers, when I came to you, I did not come announcing God's secret to you with any outstanding gifts of rhetoric or wisdom, for it was my deliberate decision to know nothing among you except Jes...
THE PROCLAMATION AND THE POWER (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)...
PREACHING. Greek. _kerugma,_ as in 1 Corinthians 1:21. WITH. in. App-104. ENTICING. persuasive. Greek. _peithos._ Only here. Compare App-150. WORDS. Greek. _logos,_ as in 1 Corinthians 2:1. MAN'S....
_in demonstration of the Spirit and of power_ Not persuasive (πειθοῖς) arguments, but appeals to the conscience and to the influence of a higher power. It is doubtful whether we should translate -the...
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...
[ἀνθρωπίνης] before ΣΟΦΊΑΣ is found in AC, but not in אBDEFG. The authorized edition of the Vulgate retains it, but it is absent from the Vetus Lat. and from some older copies of the Vulgate. The Pesh...
_JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1-5:_ When Paul preached the gospel at Corinth he did not use big words or try to sound wise. He spoke to them about salvation in everyday language tha...
ΠΕΙΘΌΣ (G3981) убедительный. Об образовании этого слова _см._ RG, 157. Павел, скорее, ссылается на галахические и агадические споры в иудейском Коринфе, чем на софистекую риторику Коринфа эллинистичес...
DISCOURSE: 1935 APOSTOLIC PREACHING 1 Corinthians 2:4. _My speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should...
BUT IN DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT, AND OF POWER— There were two sorts of arguments wherewith the Apostle confirmed the Gospel; the one was, the revelations made concerning our Saviour by types and fi...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Unsophisticated but Dynamic (1 Corinthians 2:1-5) 2 When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or Wis. 2:1-24 For...
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 doctr...
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...
The success of the Apostle's preaching was the result of his own possession of the divine Spirit, and the power that resided in his message to arrest and convince the hearer....
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...
AND MY SPEECH. — The result which necessarily followed from this weakness and trembling was that neither his “speech” (_i.e.,_ the style of his teaching), nor his “preaching” (_i.e.,_ the subject-matt...
CHAPTER 4 THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING In the preceding section of this Epistle Paul introduced the subject which was prominent in his thoughts as he wrote: the divided state of the Corinthian Churc...
§ 6. PAUL'S CORINTHIAN MISSION, Paul has justified his refusing to preach ἐν σοφίᾳ λόγου on two grounds: (1) the nature of the Gospel, (2) the constituency of the Church of Cor [287]; _it_ was no phil...
“And my word and my message:” λόγος recalls 1 Corinthians 1:18; κήρυγμα, 1Co 1:21; 1 Corinthians 1:23 (see notes). The former includes all that Paul says in proclaiming the Gospel, the latter the spec...
GOD'S GLORY IN MEN'S WEAKNESS 1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Corinthians 2:1 Like the sons of Jesse before Samuel, so do the successive regiments on which the world relies pass before Christ. The wise, the mi...
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...
Preaching the Crucified Christ Paul did not go to Corinth as an orator or philosopher. Instead, he preached Jesus as the Anointed, or Christ, who was crucified. The apostle admitted his appearance and...
And my speech and my preaching [was] not with enticing words of man's wisdom, (2) but in (d) demonstration of the Spirit and of power: (2) He turns now to the commendation of his ministry, which he h...
_ In the shewing of the spirit and power, &c. The gifts of the Holy Ghost bestowed on those that believed, and the miracles which God wrought by his apostles, were the means God made use of to convert...
2:1-5. St. Paul applies to his own ministry at Corinth the principle which he has just laid down, and shows that he has been faithful to it. This is the conclusion of the whole passage....
“And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power; 5. that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of...
(1) And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. (2) For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Chris...
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...
4._And my preaching was not in the persuasive words. _By the _persuasive words of man’s wisdom _he means that exquisite oratory which aims and strives rather by artifice than by truth, and also an app...
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...
AND MY SPEECH, AND MY PREACHING,.... As he determined, so he acted. As the subject matter of his ministry was not any of the liberal arts and sciences, or the philosophy and dry morality of the Gentil...
And my speech and my preaching _was_ not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: Ver. 4. _With enticing words_] Religion is not a matter of parts, words,...
_For I determined not to know any thing_, &c. To act as one who knew nothing, or to waive all my other knowledge, and not to preach any thing _save Jesus Christ and him crucified_ That is, what he tau...
ENTICING WORDS OF MAN'S WISDOM; such as were used by heathen orators to gain applause. IN DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT AND OF POWER; it consisted in that demonstration of the truth which had for its f...
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...
ENTICING: Or, persuasible...
AND MY SPEECH AND MY PREACHING WERE NOT IN PERSUASIVE WORDS OF WISDOM, BUT IN DEMONSTRATION OF THE SPIRIT AND OF POWER: 'speech and my preaching' -'message and my preaching' (NASV). Content and meth...
1-5 Christ, in his person, and offices, and sufferings, is the sum and substance of the gospel, and ought to be the great subject of a gospel minister's preaching, but not so as to leave out other pa...
Either here Paul's SPEECH AND PREACHING signify the same thing, (expressed by two words), or else _speech_ referreth to his more private conferences and discourses with them, and _preaching_ signifiet...
And my speech [discourse on doctrine] _and my preaching_ [announcement of facts] _were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power_ [1 Corinthians 1:5. He relied...
Origen Against Celsus Book I had been accomplished by Jesus in the history of His apostles by a sort of divine power? And to this also, Paul, referring in terms of commendation, as we have stated a l...
1 Corinthians 2:4 And G2532 my G3450 speech G3056 and G2532 my G3450 preaching G2782 not G3756 with G1722 p
‘And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling, and my word and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your...
1 Corinthians 2:4. AND MY SPEECH AND MY PREACHING, the ‘message' itself as well as its clothing, WERE NOT IN PERSUASIVE WORDS OF WISDOM, [1] BUT IN THE POWER OF GOD. It was not that he could not have...
NOT IN PERSUASIVE WORDS OF WISDOM (ουκ εν πιθοις σοφιας λογοις). This looks like a false disclaimer or mock modesty, for surely the preacher desires to be persuasive. This adjective πιθος (MSS. πειθ...
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...
WERE NOT DELIVERED. He did not use the skillful words that brainwash a person without really teaching him anything. BUT WITH CONVINCING PROOF. The Truth was made known by the Spirit and proved by supe...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1 NOT... WITH LOFTY SPEECH OR WISDOM. Paul avoided Greek rhetoric. Instead he focused on the message of the cross. He wanted the Corinthians to trust in Christ, n...
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...
_And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom,, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power_. Speech (_λόγος_) denotes his private and familiar conversation as contra...
_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 1:17; 1 Corinthians 2:1; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 Corinthians 4:20;...
In demonstration [ε ν α π ο δ ε ι ξ ε ι]. Only here in the New Testament. Lit., a showing forth....
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...
And my speech in private, as well as my public preaching, was not with the persuasive words of human wisdom, such as the wise men of the world use; but with the demonstration of the Spirit and of powe...
Here our apostle goes on, declaring after what manner he did, and did not, preach the gospel of Christ to the Corinthians. Note, 1. How he did not preach unto them: he tells us, that HIS PREACHING WAS...