Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 2:2
I determined not to know anything — To wave all my other knowledge, and not to preach anything, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified — That is, what he did, suffered, taught. A part is put for the whole.
I determined not to know anything — To wave all my other knowledge, and not to preach anything, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified — That is, what he did, suffered, taught. A part is put for the whole.
Verse 1 Corinthians 2:2. _I DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANY THING AMONG YOU_] Satisfied that the Gospel of God could alone make you wise unto salvation, I determined to cultivate no other knowledge, and to...
FOR I DETERMINED - I made a resolution. This was my fixed, deliberate purpose when I came there. It was not a matter of accident, or chance, that I made Christ my great and constant theme, but it was...
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)...
DETERMINED. App-122. KNOW. App-132. AMONG App-104. SAVE. except. Greek. _ei_ (App-118) _me_ (App-105). JESUS CHRIST. App-98. HIM. This One. Emphatic....
_For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified_ He had come to deliver a testimony concerning God, and as we have seen, that testimony must needs result in the...
2. [τοῦ] ΕἸΔΈΝΑΙ ΤΙ. The rec. τοῦ is omitted by אAB and most recent editors. But it is possibly the true reading. See note below. B places τι before εἰδέναι. So Westcott and Hort. 2. ἜΚΡΙΝΑ. The word...
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...
_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...
ΈΚΡΙΝΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΡΊΝΩ (G2919) судить, решать. Подчеркивает сознательное волевое действие (Lietzmann). _Aor._ указывает на заключение, к которому пришел Павел, прибыв в Коринф. Он должен бы...
DISCOURSE: 1933 CHRIST CRUCIFIED, OR EVANGELICAL RELIGION DESCRIBED 1 Corinthians 2:2. _I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified_. IN different ages of the w...
FOR I DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANY THING, &C.— The word rendered _to know,_ is used according to the Hebrew idiom, _to cause to know,_ or _to teach._ St. Paul, who was himself a learned man, especially...
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...
_FOR I DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANY THING AMONG YOU, SAVE JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
2:2 know (l-9) _ Oida_ , vers. 2,11 (1st), 12; _ ginosko_ , vers. 8,11 (2nd), 14,16....
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...
SAVE JESUS CHRIST, etc.] The Apostle relied for their conversion upon his witness to the great facts of Christ's life and death. The Crucifixion he dwelt upon all the more emphatically that he knew it...
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...
I DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW. — Better, _I did not determine to know._ The only subject of teaching concerning which the Apostle had formed a determined resolve in his mind when coming to Corinth was the...
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...
1 Corinthians 2:1-2 say how P. _did not come_, vv, 3 5 how he actually _did come_, to Cor [303] [303] Corinth, Corinthian or Corinthians....
§ 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...
οὐ γὰρ ἔκρινά τι (or ἔκρινα τὶ) εἰδέναι κ. τ. λ.: “For I did not determine (judge it fit) to know anything (_or_, know something) among you, except (_or_, only) Jesus Christ, and Him crucified”. This...
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...
For I (b) determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. (b) I did not profess any knowledge but the knowledge of Christ and him crucified....
“And I also, 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 Chri...
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....
This verse confirms the preceding (γάρ), supporting it by the idea that this mode of acting was the result of a plan fixed beforehand. The term ἔκρινα, _I judged good_, is well explained by Heinrici b...
(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...
_PAUL’S RESOLUTION_ ‘For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.’ 1 Corinthians 2:2 With St. Paul everything else but ‘Jesus Christ and Him crucified’ was...
2._For I did not reckon it desirable. _As κρίνειν, in Greek, has often the same meaning as εκλεγειν, that is to choose out anything as precious, (104) there is, I think, no person of sound judgment bu...
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 I DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANYTHING AMONG YOU,.... This was a resolution the apostle entered into before he came among them, that though he was well versed in human literature, and had a large compa...
For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. Ver. 2. _To know anything_] To profess or teach any other skill. All the wisdom of a man is in this one thing,...
_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...
NOT TO KNOW; to demean myself among you as one that knew nothing else; in other words, to make the doctrine of salvation through JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED, my only theme. Christ crucified as the...
THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS. Paul's preaching not in man's wisdom:...
FOR I DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANYTHING AMONG YOU SAVE JESUS CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED....
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. DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANYTHING AMONG YOU, SAVE JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. 'Determined' -firm mental resolve, 'I had decided' (Nor). 'SAVE JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED' -'He does not m...
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...
I did not value myself upon any piece of knowledge I had attained, saving only that of CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED; or, I determined with myself to carry myself amongst you, as if I knew nothing of arts...
For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. [Paul here asserts that the subject-matter of his preaching was selected from choice, or fixed design. He does no...
Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ "determine to know nothing amongst us but Jesus and Him crucified; "[68] Tertullian On Modesty "For neither did I judge to know anything among you but Jesus Christ,...
1 Corinthians 2:2 For G1063 determined G2919 (G5656) not G3756 know G1492 (G5760) anything G5100 among G1722
PAUL NOW STRESSES HIS OWN EXAMPLE TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE GOSPEL IN ITS SUCCESSFUL PRESENTATION BY HIM HAD NOT BEEN WITH ELOQUENCE AND WISDOM, BUT IN POWER (2:1-8). ‘And I, brothers, when I came to y...
1 Corinthians 2:2. FOR I DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANYTHING AMONG YOU, SAVE JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. He would not only know but one theme, but would hold that forth in precisely the light which h...
FOR I DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANYTHING AMONG YOU (ου γαρ εκρινα τ ειδενα εν υμιν). Literally, "For I did not decide to know anything among you." The negative goes with εκρινα, not with τ. Paul means...
1 Corinthians 2:2 I. Apart from the crucifixion of our Lord, there was much in Jesus Christ to commend Him both to the Jew and to the Gentile. There was no need for the introduction of that which was...
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...
EXCEPT JESUS CHRIST. If Paul were to proclaim a different message, he would use a different style. But he was simply telling the Good News of Christ. Therefore, he used a simple, direct style, because...
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...
_For I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified._ Mark the word _determined:_ it is as if he said, I did not think of, I did not value any knowledge save that whic...
_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 1:22; Galatians 3:1; Galatians 6:14; John 17:3;...
Crucified. Emphatic. That which would be the main stumbling - block to the Corinthians he would emphasize....
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...
That is, "I determined not to discover to you, or display before you, the eloquence and wisdom of the Greeks, or to give you any other knowledge but that of. crucified Saviour, which, alas! is to them...