Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 1:28
Things that are not — The Jews frequently called the gentiles, "Them that are not," 2 Esdras vi. 56, 57. In so supreme contempt did they hold them. The things that are — In high esteem.
Things that are not — The Jews frequently called the gentiles, "Them that are not," 2 Esdras vi. 56, 57. In so supreme contempt did they hold them. The things that are — In high esteem.
1 CORINTHIANS 1:28 ta. mh. o;nta {B} The presence of kai, before ta. mh. o;nta (ac B C3 Db P Y 81 614 _Byz al_) seems to be an interpolation prompted by the preceding...
Verse 28. _AND BASE THINGS - AND THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED_] It is very likely that the apostle refers here to the _Gentiles_ and to the Gentile converts, who were considered base and despicable in t...
AND BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD - Those things which by the world are esteemed ignoble. Literally, those which are not of noble, or illustrious birth τὰ ἀγειῆ ta ageiē. THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED - Th...
2. CONTRASTS. CHAPTER 1:10-4). CHAPTER 1:10-31. _ 1. Divisions rebuked. (1 Corinthians 1:10)._ 2. The Cross of Christ, the Power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:17). The section which begins, after the in...
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
Brothers, just look at the way in which you have been called. You can see at once that not many wise men--by human standards--not many powerful men, not many high-born men have been called. But God ha...
AN APOSTOLIC INTRODUCTION (1 Corinthians 1:1-3)...
BASE. Greek. _agenes._ Literally without family, or descent. Only here. The opposite of _eugenes, v_. 26. DESPISED. Greek. _exoutheneo._ Literally counted as nothing. See Acts 4:11. NOT. App-105. B...
_and things which are not_ i.e. -things which by comparison are non-existent" things which by the side of other things of higher importance in our human eyes appear to us as nothing. Yet these, in the...
God's Message not intended to flatter the pride of man 18. _For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God_ Literally, TO THEM TH...
ἈΓΕΝΗ͂. LOW BORN. Men of no family, as we should say. ἘΞΟΥΘΕΝΗΜΈΝΑ. The perfect participle intensifies the contempt. ΤἈ ΜῊ ὌΝΤΑ, i.e. ‘things which by comparison are non-existent’—things which by the...
GOD’S MESSAGE NOT INTENDED TO FLATTER THE PRIDE OF MAN...
ΆΓΕΝΉ (G772) неблагородный по происхождению, низкий, незначительный. Об отрицательном значении префикса _см._ Romans 1:20. ΈΞΟΥΘΕΝΗΜΈΝΑ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΈΞΟΥΘΕΝΈΩ (G1848) презирать, ни во что не...
DISCOURSE: 1931 THE OBJECTS OF GOD’S CALL 1 Corinthians 1:26. Ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: but God hath chose...
AND BASE THINGS— _And mean things._ In this and the preceding verse, though the Apostle makes use of the neuter gender, which occasioned our translators to insert the word _things,_ yet it is evident...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Word of the Cross and the Wisdom of the World_ (18-31) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 1:18-31. For the word of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us who are save...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS Unity Occasions Glory to God Alone (1 Corinthians 1:26-31) 26 For consider your call, brethren, not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not...
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: YEA, AND THINGS WHICH ARE NOT. "Yea" is not in the G...
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...
GREETING AND THANKSGIVING. PARTISANSHIP IN THE CHURCH St. Paul, after greeting the Church and giving thanks for its spiritual gifts, rebukes the preference for various teachers which was prevalent am...
PARAPHRASE. 'Look at the state of matters in your own Church. There are few among you eminent in the eyes of the world. (27-29) But it is just what is weak and lowly and of no account according to wor...
BASE] i.e. of low birth. THINGS WHICH ARE NOT] i.e. mere nonentities: cp. Matthew 11:5; Matthew 11:25. HATH GOD CHOSEN] Thrice emphatically repeated, to mark the fact that all is due to God....
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ ABOUT THIS LETTER CORINTH Corinth was an important city. It was on a very narrow section of land (called an ‘isthmus’) in the southern part of Gre...
AND THINGS WHICH ARE NOT. — This climax loses somewhat of its force by the insertion of the word “and,” which is not in some of the best MSS., and “yea,” which is not in any MS. Omitting the word “and...
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...
§ 5. THE OBJECTS OF THE GOSPEL CALL. § 4 has shown that the Gospel does not come ἐν σοφίᾳ λόγου (1 Corinthians 1:17 b) by _the method of its operation;_ this will further be evidenced by _the status o...
“Nay, but (ἀλλά, the _but_ of exclusion) the foolish … the weak … the base-born things of the world God did choose out (when He chose you).” ἐξελέξατο (_selected, picked out for Himself_) is equivalen...
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 epistle is to the Church. Its messages are only for those who have been brought into fellowship with Jesus Christ. The character of the Church is indicated in the words, "sanctified in Christ Jesu...
Jesus Christ, Wisdom from God So, Paul said, not many of those who would be called wise, or powerful or noblemen followed Jesus. Most uprisings are successful because the upper crust leaders join and...
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which (x) are not, to bring to (y) nought things that are: (x) Which in man's judgment are almost nothi...
Vocation, is here used for the called, as Romans iii. 30. circumcision for the circumcised, (Romans xi. 7.) election for the elect. (Bible de Vence) --- Consider you manner of being called; not many,...
“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; 28. and base things of the world, a...
(18) For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (19) For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will brin...
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...
28._Things that are not _He makes use of similar terms in Romans 4:17, but in a different sense. For in that passage, when describing the universal call of the pious, he says, that we are nothing prev...
I will now turn back to take up the thread of the contents of this epistle from the beginning. Paul was an apostle by the will of God. That was his authority, however it might be with others. Moreover...
AND BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD,.... Who are reckoned the filth of the world, and the offscouring of all things; men of mean birth, education, and business of life: AND THINGS THAT ARE DESPISED; and set...
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, _yea_, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: Ver. 28. _Things which are not_] _i.e._ That are nou...
_But God hath chosen the foolish things_ Or, supplying the word προσωπα, _the foolish persons of the world._ Such persons as are of little esteem in the world, for want of learning, parts, eloquence,...
THE FOOLISH THINGS OF THE WORLD-WEAK THINGS; those men and instrumentalities in this world which unbelievers regard as foolish and weak. So also BASE THINGS and THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED. THINGS WHICH...
AND BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD, AND THINGS WHICH ARE DESPISED, HATH GOD CHOSEN, YEA, AND THINGS WHICH ARE NOT, TO BRING TO NAUGHT THINGS THAT ARE,...
The status of the believers:...
Paul writes here as "a called apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God." As such, it is the authoritative word of God he communicates, that which requires the subjection and obedience of all the Chu...
AND THE BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD, AND THE THINGS THAT ARE DESPISED, DID GOD CHOOSE, YEA AND THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT, THAT HE MIGHT BRING TO NOUGHT THE THINGS THAT ARE: 'things' -apparently refer to...
26-31 God did not choose philosophers, nor orators, nor statesmen, nor men of wealth, and power, and interest in the world, to publish the gospel of grace and peace. He best judges what men and what...
_Things which are not_ in the world's account, _to bring to nought things which are_ in high esteem....
and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not [the people whom the world called "nobodies"]_, that he might bring to nought the th...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI namely, that which was not Israel, nor clear of vision, that He might put to shame the wise ones of Israel; and He called "the things which are not,"[180]...
1 Corinthians 1:28 and G2532 things G36 world G2889 and G2532 despised G1848 (G5772) God G2316 chosen G1586
LET THEM CONSIDER WHOM GOD HAS CHOSEN AND WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR THEM (1:26-31). ‘For look at your calling, brothers, how that not many wise after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called....
1 Corinthians 1:28. AND THE BASE THINGS OF THE WORLD, AND THE THINGS THAT ARE DESPISED, DID GOD CHOOSE, YES, AND THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT, OR AS WE MIGHT SAY, ‘THE NOTHINGS,' TO BRING TO NOUGHT THE THI...
SUMMARY. ‘I beseech you, study unity. Instead of this, I hear ye are ranging yourselves into schools and parties, each contending for its favourite preacher as if your salvation hung upon him. Thus is...
In this chapter the apostle magnifies the cross of his Lord, as God's greatest gift to the world; and as the highest glory of God's self-revelation to men. He praises God that the Corinthian Christian...
1, 2. _Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth,_ -Note the humility of Paul in associating with hi...
I am going to speak about the testimony of the apostle Peter concerning his Lord, but we will first read together part of the writings of his «beloved brother Paul,» that we may see how these eminent...
CONTENTS: Christians' position in grace. The unspiritual condition of the Corinthian saints. Danger of following human leaders and exulting in human wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Sosthenes, A...
1 Corinthians 1:1. _Paul, called to be an apostle._ It was proper to mention this, else he would have had no title to address his letter to the Corinthians, and the catholic church, or saints in gener...
HE CHOSE. Compare 1 John 2:15-17. Through the "weakness" of the gospel, the religions, governments, and even civilizations of the world were to be overturned! Not through armed violence, but by changi...
_For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel._ PAUL’S PREACHING I. It exalted the Cross of Christ as the central element of the gospel. The apostle does not teach that truths associat...
_Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God stronger than men._ THE GOSPEL AS CONTEMPLATED BY MAN AND EMPLOYED BY GOD I. Its doctrine--is foolishness, yet wiser than m...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 1:26 Those who believed the gospel were FOOLISH by the world’s standards. God transformed them into his people by saving them. They must not boast in ancestry, acco...
RANSLATED AND EDITED BY W. F. COBB, D.D. EDINBURGH: JOHN GRANT 31 George IV. Bridge 1908 SAINT PAUL'S FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS EDITORS PREFACE In translating the Comments of Cornelius...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 1:19.— Isaiah 29:14 (nearly as LXX.), and a free imitation of Isaiah 30:18. FOR.—Sustains the _general drift_ of...
EXPOSITION The oldest superscription was probably, "To the Corinthians, the first (Πρὸς Κορινθίους πρώτη)." This is found in א, A, B, C, D. 1 CORINTHIANS 1:1 _The_ _greeting. _An opening salutati...
Let's turn to I Corinthians, chapter 1. Paul introduces himself as the writer with Sosthenes in the first verse. Paul, called an apostle (1 Corinthians 1:1) Notice the words to be are in italics. Th...
1 Corinthians 2:6; 2 Corinthians 12:11; Daniel 2:34; Daniel 2:35;...
Base [ω γ ε ν η]. Of no family. The reverse of eujgeneiv noble. Despised [ε ξ ο υ θ ε ν η μ ε ν α]. Lit., set at nought. Not merely despised, but expressly branded with contempt. See Luke 23:11....
THE CHURCH OF GOD AT CORINTH 1 Corinthians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We propose taking several studies from the First Epistle to the Corinthians. There will be much to consider here which should help...