1 Corinthians 3:18-23

§ 11. THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD. Affectation of philosophy, “the wisdom of the world,” which P. has repudiated on behalf of the Gospel (1 Corinthians 1:2) was at the bottom of the Cor [606] troubles. Those who follow human wisdom exalt human masters at the expense of God's glory, and there are teachers who lend themselves to this error and thus build unworthily on the Christian foundation some who are even destroying, under a show of building, the temple of God (1 Corinthians 3:3-17). That the warnings P. has given to his fellow-labourers bear on the popular λόγος σοφίας is apparent from the manner in which he reverts to the topic at this point. § 11 resumes the strain of §§ 4 8, impressing on teachers and taught alike the true relationship of things human and Divine.

[606] Corinth, Corinthian or Corinthians.