1 Corinthians 1:24 (WEB)
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God;
Catechism · 1
“For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 1:24-25.
Fathers and councils · 77
Augustine of Hippo
“And since He created all things by the Word, which Word is also designated the Truth, and the Power, and the Wisdom of God,—as also under many other appellations the Lord Jesus Christ, who is commended to our faith, is presented likewise to our mental apprehensions, to wit, our…” — editor's note: John xiv. 6; 1 Cor. i. 24
Read the whole comment“…Him, with the purpose of thus declaring Himself begot this [Word] which He Himself is who did beget; which [Person] is likewise called His Power and Wisdom, inasmuch as it is by Him that He has wrought all things, and in order disposed them; of whom these words are for this reason spoken: “She (Wisdom) reacheth…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24
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. 22–25.
Read the whole comment“The same Christ is surely “the Power of God, and the Wisdom of God:” and what saith the Scripture of Wisdom Herself?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“For one is our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we in Him, of whom we read that He is “the Virtue of God and the Wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“To “Christ the Virtue of God and the Wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment““The soul of the righteous is the seat of Wisdom.”” — editor's note: Prov. xii. 23; 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“Or if the plural number moveth them, since it is not said, Thy hand, but, “Thy hands;” let them understand by the hands of God the power and wisdom of God, both of which titles are given to one Christ, who is also understood under the figure, Arm of the Lord.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“This belongeth to the Word of God, not to be in part, to be everywhere by Himself the Word, whereby He is “the Power of God and the Wisdom of God,” before He had taken flesh upon Him.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“For neither has the Son separated the Father from Himself, because He Himself, speaking elsewhere with the voice of wisdom (for He Himself is the Wisdom of God), says, “I alone compassed the circuit of heaven.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24
Read the whole comment“For the apostle says, “Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24
Read the whole comment“For the question is raised,—because it is written, “Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God,”—whether He is so the Father of His own wisdom and His own power, as that He is wise with that wisdom which He begat, and powerful with that power which He…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24
Read the whole comment“We must now discourse concerning wisdom; not the wisdom of God, which without doubt is God, for His only-begotten Son is called the wisdom of God; but we will speak of the wisdom of man, yet of true wisdom, which is according to God, and is His true and chief worship, which is called in Greek by one term, θεοσέβεια.” — editor's note: Ecclus. xxiv. 5. and 1 Cor. i. 24
Read the whole comment“In the sixth, the question how Christ is called by the mouth of the apostle “the power of God and the wisdom of God,” is so far argued that the more careful handling of that question is deferred, viz. whether He from whom Christ is begotten is not wisdom Himself, but only the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24
Read the whole comment“Christ, indeed, is called in the Holy Scriptures, “the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24
Read the whole comment“But the Word of God, i.e. the only-begotten Son of God, is expressly called the Wisdom of God by the mouth of the apostle, where he says, “Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24
Read the whole comment“Dost thou grant this too, that “Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“Let us then both give ear to Jesus Christ, “to the Jews a stumbling stone, and to the Gentiles foolishness, but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 23, 24.
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“Brethren, if Christ is the Wisdom of God and the Power of God; if Christ is the Word of God, and if the word of man is not seen with the eyes, can the Word of God be so seen?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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.
Read the whole comment“Therefore the “six water-pots containing two or three metretæ apiece” are six periods of time, containing the prophecy relating to all nations, whether as represented in two sorts of men, namely, Jews and Greeks, as the apostle often mentions them; or in three sorts, on account of the three sons of Noah.” — editor's note: Rom. ii. 9; 1 Cor. i. 24, etc.
Read the whole comment“Where the Word, of which it is said that the same is “the power and the wisdom of God”?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“For wisdom is not really female, since Christ is the Wisdom of God, and Christ is termed of the masculine gender, wisdom of the feminine.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“…to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness; and to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, the power of God, and the wisdom of God;” but to the carnal, as babes who held it only as a matter of faith, and to the spiritual, as those of greater capacity, who perceived it as a matter of…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 23, 24.
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Origen
“For the preaching of Jesus Christ as crucified is the “foolishness” of preaching, as Paul also perceived, when he said, “But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness; but to them who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 23, 24.
Read the whole comment“Finally, the Apostle Paul says that “Christ (is) the power of God and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…of our being taken out of darkness, we know He is the True Light, who weans us from darkness: if wisdom is precious to any, Christ is God’s power and Wisdom.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24. “Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.”
Read the whole comment“For Christ is “the Power of God and the Wisdom of God;” so that he who imagines he sees the One God apart from power, truth, wisdom, life, or the true light, either sees nothing at all or else assuredly that which is evil.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“But Christ is “the Power of God and the Wisdom of God,” by Whom all things were made and without Whom is no existent thing, as John testifies.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“Paul says that the Son is “the Power of God”; Eunomius calls Him “the seal of a power,” not the Power.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“For because these words are spoken by Wisdom, and the Lord is called Wisdom by the great Paul, they allege this passage as though the Only-begotten God Himself, under the name of Wisdom, acknowledges that He was created by the Maker of all things.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“…and surpasses all intelligence, the more exalted order of names, calling Him “God over all,” “the great God,” “the power” of God, and “the wisdom” of God, and the like; but when he is alluding to all that experience of suffering which, by reason of our weakness, was necessarily assumed with our nature, he gives…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“If, then, the Only-begotten God, as Eunomius says, “was not before His generation,” and Christ is “the power of God and the wisdom of God,” and the “express image” and the “brightness,” neither surely did the Father exist, Whose power and wisdom and express image and brightness the Son is: for it…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“And we have learnt from the Scripture that the Son is the power of the Father.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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Tertullian
““Except Wisdom,” however, is a phrase of the same sense exactly as “except the Son,” who is Christ, “the Wisdom and Power of God,” according to the apostle, who only knows the mind of the Father.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…are made, even His eternal Power and Godhead;’ and what the Power of God is, he teaches us elsewhere himself, ‘Christ the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24. Athan. has so interpreted this text supr. de Decr. 15. It was either a received interpretation, or had been adduced at Nicæa, for Asterius had…
Read the whole comment“…of his work: ‘The Blessed Paul said not that he preached Christ the power of God or the wisdom of God, but, without the article, ‘God’s power and God’s wisdom;’ thus preaching that the proper power of God Himself, which is natural to Him and co-existent with Him unoriginatedly, is something besides.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“…and ‘O Lord, Thy Word endureth for ever;’ and ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God;’ and ‘Christ the Power of God and the Wisdom of God;’ and ‘This is My beloved Son;’ and ‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.7Discourse III
“For as, although Himself the ‘Understanding,’ in which He prepared the heavens, and Himself ‘Strength and Power’ (for Christ is ‘God’s Power and God’s Wisdom’), He here has altered the terms and said, ‘Mine is understanding’ and ‘Mine strength,’ so while He says, ‘Mine is counsel,’ He must Himself be the Living…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment “For Christ is understood in both ways in Divine Scripture, as when it says Christ ‘God’s power and God’s wisdom.’” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“Thus the ‘Wisdom of God,’ our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, not out of season, but in season, ‘passed upon holy souls, fashioning the friends of God and the prophets;’ so that…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“But if they pretend to be Christians let them learn that the crucified Christ is at once Lord of Glory, and the Power of God and Wisdom of God.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. i. 24, and ii. 8.
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John Damascene
“…of God was not brought into being out of nothing, He that is the effulgence of the glory, the impress of the Father’s subsistence, the living wisdom and power, the Word possessing interior subsistence, the essential and perfect and living image of the unseen God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“Further Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“For the Wisdom of God is Christ His Only-begotten Son: and he by his doctrine degraded the Wisdom of God into a female element, and one of thirty, and the last fabrication.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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Ambrose of Milan
“He is called the Word, the Son, the Power of God, the Wisdom of God.” — editor's note: S. John i. 1, 14; xx. 31; Rom. i. 4; S. Matt. xxviii. 18; 1 Cor. i. 24; Col. ii. 3.
Read the whole comment“It is Truth, Righteousness, the Power of God: not dumb, for it is the Word; not insensible, for it is Wisdom; not vain and foolish, for it is Power; not soulless, for it is the Life; not dead, for it is the Resurrection.” — editor's note: Christ the Truth: S. John xiv. 6. Righteousness: Jer. xxxiii. 16; xxiii. 6; 1 Cor. i. 30. Power of God: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle says that God’s Power and Godhead are eternal, and that Christ is the Power of God—for it is written that Christ is “the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. i. 20—“His eternal power and Godhead.” 1 Cor. i. 23–24—“We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block and to the Gentiles foolishness, but to…
Read the whole comment“…believes that Thou art the true Power and Wisdom of God, no being of time nor of creation, but even as it is written, the eternal Power and Divinity of God, may, upheld by the aid of thy Might Supreme, win the prize of victory for his Faith.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“…but just as He is the Life, not depending upon another’s quickening action, but Himself quickening others, because He is the Life; so also He is Wisdom, not as one that is ignorant acquiring wisdom, but making others wise from His own store; so, too, He is Power, not as having through weakness obtained increase…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“But the Father made all things in wisdom, that is, He made all things through the Son, who is the Virtue and Wisdom of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“Of the Son you have read that Christ is “the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Hilary of PoitiersCatena Aurea on Matthew
“Many indeed evade that saying of the Apostle’s, “Christ is the wisdom and power of God,” [1 Cor 1:24] by saying, that truly in creating Him of a Virgin the Wisdom and Power of God were shewn mightily.” — the author cites it
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“Or by the power of God, which the Lord here convicts the Sadducees that they knew not, He intends Himself, who was the power of God; and Him they knew not [marg. note: 1 Cor 1:24], as not knowing the Scriptures which spoke of Him; and thence also they believed not the resurrection, which He should effect.” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“Thus Christ is called “the power of God” ( 1 Cor. i. 24 ), and “the wisdom of God”; yet not always where “the power” and “the wisdom of God” are mentioned is Christ meant; so in this passage, although the Spirit does give “Light,” yet the Evangelist is not now speaking of the Spirit.” — the author cites it
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“And a little before he says, “But we preach Christ crucified to the Jews a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness, but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 23, 24
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Basil the Great
“…and of the mighty qualities attributed to the essence of God, image of power, image of wisdom, as Christ is called “the power of God and the wisdom of God”?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“Let them learn that “Christ is the power of God and wisdom of God,” and that “He is the image of the invisible God” and “brightness of his glory,” and that “Him hath God the Father sealed,” by engraving Himself on Him.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“At one time it uses terms descriptive of His nature, for it recognises the “name which is above every name,” the name of Son, and speaks of true Son, and only begotten God, and Power of God, and Wisdom, and Word.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24, and possibly Rom. i. 16, if with D. we read gospel of Christ.
Read the whole comment“Hence He alone worthily glorifies the Lord, for, it is said, “He shall glorify me,” not as the creature, but as “Spirit of truth,” clearly shewing forth the truth in Himself, and, as Spirit of wisdom, in His own greatness revealing “Christ the Power of God and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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Jerome
“God’s wisdom is Christ, for Christ, we are told, is “the power of God and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“I speak of you as wise, for who can be wiser than one who, despising the folly of the world, has followed Christ “the power of God and the wisdom of God”?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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John Cassian
“But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, to the Gentiles foolishness: but to them that are saved, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 22–24.
Read the whole comment“And where is that saying of yours, O Apostle Paul: “But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling block, but to the Gentiles foolishness: but to them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 23, 24.
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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.
Read the whole comment“This is not contrary to the meaning of the Apostle, when He proclaims Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God, thus referring all the magnificence of His work to the glory of the Father: for whatever Christ does, the power and the wisdom of God does: and whatever the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“The Greeks seek after wisdom, he says, and the Jews ask for a sign; but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and unto Gentiles foolishness; but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ Jesus, the power of God, God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 23, 24.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Wisdom and Power, “Christ, the Wisdom of God, and the Power of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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Aphrahat
“And while He is the steward of the wisdom, again, as the Apostle said:—Christ is the power of God and His wisdom.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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Leo the Great
““Hear ye Him,” therefore, unhesitatingly, in Whom I am throughout well pleased, and by Whose preaching I am manifested, by Whose humiliation I am glorified; because He is “the Truth and the Life,” He is My “Power and Wisdom.”” — editor's note: S. John xiv. 6; 1 Cor. i. 24.
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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.
Read the whole comment“But the teaching, which is according to the Saviour, is complete in itself and without defect, being “the power and wisdom of God;” and the Hellenic philosophy does not, by its approach, make the truth more powerful; but rendering powerless the assault of sophistry against it, and…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“For the Word is “the power and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
Read the whole comment“For we remember that the Lord is “the power of God,” and power can never be weak.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 24.
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Cyprian of Carthage
““Because the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness; but to them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 22–24.
Read the whole comment“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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