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God's Private Thoughts
Paul uses a simple analogy: just as only you can truly know your own inner thoughts and plans, only the Spirit of God can truly know God's deep thoughts and plans. Commentators explain this isn't about human intellect discovering God, but about the Spirit revealing what is otherwise unknowable.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 2:11
18th Century
Theologian
For what man. The design of this is to illustrate what he had just said by referring to the way in which man acquires knowledge of himself…
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 2:11
Knoweth (οιδεν, εγνωκεν). Second perfect of root ιδ-, to see and so know, first perfect of γινωσκω, to know by personal experience…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 2:11
19th Century
Bishop
What man . . .—Better, Who of men knoweth the things of a man? but the spirit of the man which is in him knoweth them.
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 2:11
“For” introduces an illustration that shows that the spiritual wisdom and truths of God can be understood only through the Holy Spirit, just as hum…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 2:11
16th Century
Theologian
For what man knoweth? He intends to teach two different things here: first, that the doctrine of the Gospel cannot be understood …
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 2:11
17th Century
Pastor
For what man knoweth the things of a man
The thoughts of a man's heart, the conceptions of his mind, the schemes he …
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 2:10–16
17th Century
Minister
God has revealed true wisdom to us by His Spirit. Here is a proof of the Divine authority of the Holy Scriptures (2 Peter 1:21). In pro…