1 Corinthians 2:1

[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 founded by him as a weak and lowly one, in accordance with God's plan.] And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech [as an orator] or of wisdom [as a philosopher], proclaiming to you the testimony of [about] God. [Though Paul was educated at Tarsus, which Strabo preferred as a school of learning to Athens or Alexandria, yet he made no display of his learning, and hence his enemies spoke of his speech as contemptible or no account (2 Corinthians 10:10). He quotes from Aratus at Acts 17:28; and Epimenides at Tit 1:12; and Menander at 1 Cor 15:33. But Paul counted all such polite learning as mere dross in comparison with the excellency of the knowledge of Christ-- Philippians 3:8]