wisdom is, of which the speeches and arguments are to be set aside.
5. 2op/a, in the wisdom ) and power. — hwa/xn, in the power ) and wisdom.
6. 2 o<piav he XaXov/xev, hut we speak wisdom) He returns, as it were after a parenthesis, to what he had slightly mentioned at i. 23—25 : we speak , contains by implication an epanalepsis1 of the words, we preach [ch. i. 23] ; but we speak refers to some- thing secret, as appears from comparing ver. 7, 13 ; we preach , to something public ; for wisdom here denotes not the whole of the Christian doctrine, but its sublime and secret leading prin- ciples. There is also an antithesis of the past tense, ver. 1, etc. [ came — determined , etc.], and of the present in this passage [we speak~\. — sv role, rsXe/o/g) in the case of \_u penes perfectos as far as concerns] them that are perfect , at Corinth or elsewhere. Construe with, we speak . The knowledge of God and Christ is the highest knowledge. Comp. Iv, xiv. 11 [o XuXuv h i/xo/' (3ap- (3otpog, — a barbarian, unto me] Phil. i. 30.2 Not only worldly and natural men are opposed to the perfect , even to the end of the chapter, but also carnal men and babes, ch. iii. at the beginning ; Heb. v. 14, 13. — ov — oud'z , not — nor) God is opposed to the world , ver. 7 ; the apostles , to the princes of the world , ver. 8, etc. — apyfvroiv, of the princes) i. 20. Paul uses a wTord of wide signification, in which he comprehends men of rank both among the Jews and Greeks. — ruv xarapyov/uevuv, who come to nought) i. 19, 28. This epithet applies to the princes of the world, and to the world itself ; whence it is evident, that the wisdom of the world is not true, because it does not lead men to immortality.
7. ’Ey {//Vffryjptu), ty\v d^oxs^pv/x/Msvrjv, in a mystery , [even] the hidden [wisdom]) It is concealed before it is brought forward, and when it is brought forward, it still remains hidden to many, namely to those that are imperfect. — ^pouipim, ordained before) The allusion is to hath prepared , ver. 9. — Kph, before ) therefore it does not come to nought , ver. 6. This wisdom very far surpasses
1 See App. Where the same word or words are in the beginning of a preceding member, and in the end of a following member ; thus marking a parenthesis ; as here, from c. i. 23-25, to c. ii. 6.
2 “ The same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me,” sv ipcoi. So here, “ we speak in the case o/the perfect.” — Ed.