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ἀλλ᾽ ἐν "' ἀποδείξει " Πνεύματος καὶ °Suvdpews: 5. ἵνα ἡ πίστις ™ ὑμῶν μὴ ᾖ ἐν σοφίᾳ ἀνθρώπων, add’ ἐν ” δυνάµει Θεοῦ. 6. Σοφίαν δὲ λαλοῦμεν ἐν τοῖς Ἀτελείοις: σοφίαν δὲ οὐ τοῦ
2A r , ος a 8 > , a QLWVOS TOUTOU, οὐδὲ των αρχογτων του
often in P., wv. is anarthrous in like connexion. Woes tO Lae 53) 2) ππο τα i i. 18.
48, xix. 21. Vi. 12. places; Jo vil. 26, 48, xii. 42.
r See i, 20.
art. ef 1 with the anarthrous phrase of i. 18). The prpl. clause affirms not the agency by which, but the sphere of action 72 which, Paul’s word operated.
Supply to this verse éyévero from the ἐγενόμην of νετ. 3.
Ver. 5. The Apostle’s purpose in dis- carding the orator’s and the sophist’s arts was this: “that your faith might not rest in wisdom of men, but in (the) power of God”. The κἀγὼ ἠἦλθον of ver. 1 dominates the paragraph; P. lives over again the experience of his early days in Cor.; this purpose then filled his breast: so Hf., Gd., with the older interpreters; most moderns read into the tva the Divine purpose suggested by i. 27-31. Paul was God’s mouthpiece in declaring the Gospel ; he therefore sought the very end of God Himself, vzz., that God alone should be glorified in the Ιω μι orbs hearers, (35s ο Ἡ τοι Had he persuaded the Cor. by clever reasonings and grounded Christianity upon their Greek philosophy, his work would have perished with the wisdom of the age (see 6, also i. 109, ili. rg f.).
The disowned σοφία ἀνθρώπων is the ‘sod. τ. κόσμον Of i. 10 (see note) in its moral character, a god. σαρκική (2 Cor. i. 12)—‘‘ wisdom of men” as opposed to that of God,—av8pwrivn, ver. 13. Yetnot God’s wisdom, but primarily His power (see notes on i. 18, 24, 30) supplied the ground on which P. planted his hearers’ faith. All through, he opposes the practi- cal to the speculative, the reality of God’s work to the speciousness of men’s talk. The last tva clause of this long passage corresponds to the first, ἵνα μὴ κενωθῇῃ 6 σταΌρος τ. Χριστοῦ (i. 17). ἐν should be construed with q (consistat in, Bz.) rather than πίστις, pointing not to the object of faith but to its substratum: for this predicative ἐν---' should be (a faith) in,” etc.—¢f. iv. 20, Eph. v. 18, Acts iv. 12.
Summary. Thus the Apostle’s first ministry at Cor., in respect of his bear- .ing (ver. 1), theme (2), temper (3), method