1 Corinthians 1:21 (WEB)
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.
Fathers and councils · 15
Origen
“…because “by the foolishness of preaching it pleased God to save them that believe on Him, after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God,”—because such individuals are unable to see distinctly the sense of each particular passage, or unwilling to devote the necessary leisure to the investigation…” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. i. 21.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“For since, as the Apostle said, ‘in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 21.
Read the whole comment“If not how is it that the Apostle complains, ‘For after that in the Wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God?’ or how is it if there is no wisdom, that a ‘multitude of wise men’ are found in Scripture? for ‘a wise man feareth and departeth from evil;’ and ‘through…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 21.
Read the whole comment“As Paul also says: “For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the word preached to save them that believe.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 21.
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Jerome
“The true wisdom must destroy the false, and, although the foolishness of preaching is inseparable from the Cross, Paul speaks “wisdom among them that are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world that come to…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 21.
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Tertullian
“See whether the heathen have in God the Father the “substance” of origin, and wisdom, and natural power of Godward recognition; by means of which power the apostle withal notes that “in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom knew not God,”—(wisdom) which, of course, it had received originally from God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 21.
Read the whole comment“Moreover, having the spirit of the world, and “in the wisdom of God by wisdom knowing not God,” they seem to themselves to be wiser than God; because, as the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God, so also the wisdom of God is folly in the world’s esteem.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 21.
Read the whole comment“What follows will confirm this suggestion, when he asks, “Hath not God infatuated the wisdom of this world?” and when he adds the reason why: “For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 21.
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Basil the Great
“Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or publicly enjoined which are preserved in the Church some we possess derived from written teaching; others we have received delivered to us “in a mystery” by the tradition of the apostles; and both of these in relation to true religion have the same force.” — editor's note: “τῶς ἐν τῇ Εκκλησί& 139· πεφυλαγμένων δογμάτων καὶ κηρυγμάτων.” To give the apparent meaning of the original seems impossible except by some such paraphrase as…
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Augustine of Hippo
““For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God” (since “the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not”), it “pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe,” and that the Word should be made flesh, and dwell among us.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 21
Read the whole comment“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 19–25.
Read the whole comment“…world, and things that are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, as though they were things that are, to bring to nought things that are.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 20–28.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 20–25.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…their heart;” since “in the wisdom of God,” that is, as proclaimed by the prophets, “the world knew not,” in the wisdom “which spake by the prophets,” “Him,” that is, God,—“it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching”—what seemed to the Greeks foolishness—“to save them that believe.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 21–24; where the reading is Θεόν not Αὐτόν.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Because the Jews desire signs, and the Greeks seek for wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness; but to them that are called, Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 17–24.
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Cross-references · 15
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Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.70.
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Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.70.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in The City of God X.27.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.
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Cited together in Against Celsus V.16.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.