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For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn`t know God, it was God`s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
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Human Wisdom's Limit
Commentators agree that this verse describes a historical and spiritual reality: God, in His overarching plan, allowed humanity to fully test its own wisdom and philosophy. The result was a clear failure to truly know Him. This demonstrated the world's need for a different, divine solution.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For after that. epeidh. Since; or seeing that it is true that the world by wisdom did not know God. After all the experience of t…
Seeing that (επειδη). Since (επε and δη) with explanatory γαρ.
Through its wisdom (δια της σοφιας). Articl…
19th Century
Anglican
For: This is an explanation and evidence of how God made the wisdom of the world to be only “folly.”
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Baptist
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where …
To Paul, in God’s all-wise purpose human beings with all their philosophical and religious wisdom and searching “did not come to know God.” This is…
16th Century
Protestant
For since the world knew not. The right order of things was assuredly this: that man, contemplating the wisdom of God in His works by the …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For after that in the wisdom of God These words contain a reason proving the infatuation of men, with respect to "the wisdom o…
Paul had been educated in Jewish learning; but the plain preaching of a crucified Jesus was more powerful than all the oratory and philosophy of th…
13th Century
Catholic
After condemning their conflict with a reason based on baptism, the Apostle disapproves of it again with a reason based on doctrine. For some of th…
