Godet's Commentary on Selected Books
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
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.
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.
1 CORINTHIANS 2:1 musth,rion {B} From an exegetical point of view the reading martu,rion tou/ qeou/, though well supported (ac B D G P Y 33 81 614 1739 _Byz_ itd, g vg syrh copsa arm eth...
CHAPTER II. _The apostle makes an apology for his manner of preaching_, 1. _And gives the reason why he adopted that manner_, 2-5. _He shows that this preaching, notwithstanding it was not with_ _...
AND I, BRETHREN - Keeping up the tender and affectionate style of address. WHEN I CAME UNTO YOU - When I came at first to preach the gospel at Corinth. Acts 18:1 ff. CAME NOT WITH EXCELLENCY OF SPEEC...
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
THE PROCLAMATION AND THE POWER (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)...
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...
TO. unto. App-104. NOT. App-105. WITH. according to. App-104. EXCELLENCY. pre-eminence. Greek. _huperoche._ Only here and 1 Timothy 2:2. SPEECH. word. App-121. DECLARING. App-121. UNTO. to. TEST...
The wisdom of the Gospel discernible by the spiritual faculties alone 1. _And I, brethren, when I came to you_ The Apostle now begins to justify his preaching. It was not that of one skilled in the f...
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...
ὙΠΕΡΟΧΉΝ. Excellence in the strict sense of the word—that which one man has above another. Here, however, it is applied to the high-flown style of eloquence admired at Corinth—Corinthia verba, as such...
_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...
ΚΆΓΏ (G2504) = ΚΑΙ ΈΓ "и я"; выражает согласие. Апостол подчеркивает, что действовал согласно принципам, обозначенным в предыдущих стихах (RP). ΈΛΘΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G2064) прих...
AND I, BRETHREN, &C.— As a further argument to keep them from glorying in their leaders, St. Paul tells the Corinthians, that, as the preachers of the Gospel, of God's choosing, were mean and illitera...
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 I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. AND I - So I, I also, as one of the 'foolish, weak, and despised' inst...
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 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...
WHEN I CAME] i.e. on his first visit some five years before (Acts 18:1). NOT WITH EXCELLENCY OF SPEECH OR OF WISDOM] St. Paul did not try to win the Corinthians to the gospel either by the eloquence 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...
II. (1) AND I. — The Apostle now proceeds to show how he personally, in both the matter and manner of his teaching at Corinth, had acted in accordance with those great principles which he has already...
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...
Κἀγὼ ἐλθὼν … ἦλθον : “And I at my coming … came”: the repeated vb [288] draws attention to Paul's _arrival_, to the circumstances and character of his original work at Cor [289] The emphasis of κἀγώ “...
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...
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 (1) I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the (a) testimony of God. (1) He returns to (1 Corinthians 1:17), that is to say, to his ow...
CONTENTS The Apostle enters upon the Relation of his Ministry, which he had exercised among the Corinthians. He reminds them, that he passed by all human Eloquence in his Discourses before them, and...
(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...
1._And I, when I came _Paul having begun to speak of his own method of teaching, had straightway fallen into a discussion as to the nature of gospel preaching generally. Now again he returns to speak...
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 I, brethren, when I came to you,.... This account the apostle gives of himself is occasioned, either by what he had said in the latter part of the preceding chapter, concerning the choice God has...
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. Ver. 1. _Not with excellency_] St Paul's speech was _neque lecta, neque...
_And I, brethren_, &c. As if he had said, I have been showing that God is wont to call and convert persons to himself by unlikely and contemptible means; and that his design in the gospel is of a very...
NOT WITH EXCELLENCY OF SPEECH; that rhetorical refinement, or those subtle philosophical discussions which were admired by the Greeks. THE TESTIMONY OF GOD; concerning Jesus Christ and the way of sal...
AND I, BRETHREN, WHEN I CAME TO YOU, CAME NOT WITH EXCELLENCY OF SPEECH OR OF WISDOM, DECLARING UNTO YOU THE TESTIMONY OF GOD....
THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS. Paul's preaching not in man's wisdom:...
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...
AND I, BRETHREN, WHEN. CAME UNTO YOU, CAME NOT WITH EXCELLENCY OF SPEECH OR OF WISDOM, PROCLAIMING TO YOU THE TESTIMONY OF GOD. 'when. came unto you' -the first time (Acts 18:1 ff) 'EXCELLENCY OF SP...
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...
1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 2 1 CORINTHIANS 2:1 Paul declareth that he used not human learning and eloquence in preaching the gospel to his converts, that their faith, being built on the testimony of the Sp...
[In chapter 1 Paul showed that it was God's plan to overthrow the vain wisdom of the world by those weak and lowly ones whom the world despised. He now proceeds to show that the church at Corinth was...
1 Corinthians 2:1 I G2504 brethren G80 came G2064 (G5631) to G4314 you G5209 not G3756 come G2064 ...
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 2:1. AND I, BRETHREN, WHEN I CAME UNTO YOU, CAME NOT WITH EXCELLENCY OF SPEECH (as a rhetorician), OR OF WISDOM (as a philosopher), PROCLAIMING TO YOU THE TESTIMONY OF GOD [1] that conce...
NOT WITH EXCELLENCY OF SPEECH OR OF WISDOM (ου καθ' υπεροχην λογου η σοφιας). Hυπεροχη is an old word from the verb υπερεχω (Philippians 4:7) and means preeminence, rising above. In N.T. only here a...
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...
WHEN I CAME TO YOU. In _chapter 1,_ Paul showed that God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense and weak, to put to shame and to destroy what the world thinks is important. To the Corinthia...
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 I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom._ The Apostle here descends from the general to the particular. In other words: I said in the preceding chapter th...
_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 1:6; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 Corinthians 2:4;...
With excellency [κ α θ υ π ε ρ ο χ η ν]. Lit., according to elevation or superiority. The noun occurs only here and 1 Timothy 2:2, where it is rendered authority. The phrase expresses the mode of his...
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 I accordingly came to you, not with loftiness of speech or of wisdom — I did not affect either deep wisdom or eloquence. Declaring the testimony of God — What God gave me to testify concerning his...
Our apostle had, in the foregoing chapter, declared how Christ had sent him to preach the gospel in the plainness and simplicity of it, NOT WITH THE WISDOM OF WORDS, ver. 17, that is, not in. pompous...