thewife, and will bring * to nothing the underſtanding of the prudent /,
| What Jſaiab ſaid of the wiſe men among the Jews in his time» 8 pplicable to rhe wiſe.men among the-Heathen, God will deſtroy the wiſdom, and make their underſtanding appear to be no better than feoliſbneſe. So as iris not at all to be admired , if the Phi. klophers of this World countthe Goſpel, and rhe preaching of ir kolfhnefs ; the taking away the Wiſdom and Underſtanding of ten worldly wiſe, is bur an ordinary diſpenſation of God's pro. Wence, no morethan God threatned to do in 1/aiah's time to the a of that generation.
20 Where & the wiſe? where 7s theScribe ? 2 where ' the diſputer of this world? »* Hath not God made boliſh the wiſdom. of :bi5 world 2. 9.
n He alladeth again to that 1ſa 33. 18. Whert is the Scribe? Ore is the Receiver 2 . Where are the wiſe-mn amongſt the Hea- tens? Where are-the Scribes ? The learned men in the Law a- nongſt the Jews. » Where are thoſe amongſt Jews or Gen les
tarethe great inquirers into the reaſons and natures of things, nd mansgedebates and diſputes about them? They underftand Wihing of the Myſteries of the Goſpel , or the way of Salvarion, Mich God holds out ro the World in and through Jeſus Chriſt : 0, where are thy? What have they done by all their Philoſo. My and moral Dofrine, as to the turning of men from-ſin unto
l, from ways of Fniquity unto ways of righteouſneſs, in com- Mſn of what we the Miniſters of Chriſt have done by preaching tie Dorine of the Goſpe!, and the Croſs ' of Chriſt? » Do not Mfe how God: hath fooled the wiſdom of the World « making It appear vain and contemprible and of no uſe, as to the fa. fag of mens Souls, making choice of 'none of their Doors and Fiat Rabbier , to carry that DoQrine: abroad in the World; and "icing men, that without Faith in Chriſt, all chat can be
ed from them will be of no avail tothe Soul. -
21 * For after that, in the wiſdom of God p,. the Wrid by wiſdom knew not God 9, it pteaſed God _ fooliſhneſs of preaching, to fave them that lj ve r, ſ
2 ome here by the wiſdom of God underſtand Jeſus Chrift, and UK the ſenſe thus, When he who'is the wiſdom of God came
f * He did not remember, that he had baprized any ore at Corinth, though it is very probable, he had/baptized many
For Chriſt ſent me not to baptize, but to , not * with wiſdom of || words , Chriſt ſhould. be made of none
his principal work, not the main buſineſs for h Paul was ſent, ir was his work, otherwiſe he would nor zed Criſpus or Gaius, or the houſe of $!-$hanas, but preach-
1d in a day be added to the Church), if Pcrcr had baptized
onſtrations'and arguments. This was the way ( ligfaith ) ro| bo taken away all Authority from the Do&rine of the Croſs of
is a decent expreſſion to be uſed in the communicatiag the Will of |
15 For it is written, * I will deſtroy the wiſdom of
owned the. true God, and only delired ſome miraculous operati- on from Chriſt, Mar. 12. 38. 7obn 4. 48. to confirm them rhac Chriſt was ſent from God, without ſigns and wonders they would uot believe ; giving no credit at all to the words of Ch:iſt: and the Greeks ( by: whom the. Apoſtle underftinds the Gentiles eſpecially rhe more learned parr of them ( for Greece was ar this cime very famous for humane Literature ) they ſought afrer the demonſtration of all things from natural cauſes, and rational argue. ments, and deſpiſed every thing which could not { be made out untothem.
23 But we preach Chriſt crucitied s , * unto the... Jews a ſtumbling-block «, and unto the Greeks g: fooliſhneſs w. Joh. 6.66 £ We that are the Miniſters of Chriſt come and preach to them 5G.
that there was one hang'd upon a Croſs at 7eruſalem , who is the Chap. 2, Saviour of the World, and was not cur off for his own ſins, but 1+.
or the fins of his people. u The Jews are ſtumbled ar this looking for a Meſſiah , that ſhould be a great temporal Prince and belides, accounting it an ignominious thing to believe in ones as their Saviour, whom they had cauſed to be crucifidd. w And the Greeks, the moſt Jearned among the Gentiles , look upon ir as 2 fooliſh idle ſtory ; that one who was, and is God blelled for ever, ſhould be crucified.