1 Corinthians 2:11 (WEB)
For who among men knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except God’s Spirit.
Catechism · 4
I Believe
“No one comprehends the thoughts of God, except the Spirit of God."” — Catechism footnote: I Cor 2:10-11.
The Church, Mother and Teacher
“Faith and the practice of the Gospel provide each person with an experience of life "in Christ," who enlightens him and makes him able to evaluate the divine and human realities according to the Spirit of God.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 2:10-15.
I Believe in God
“By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. I Cor 2:7-16; Eph 3:9-12.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“"No one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 2:11.
Fathers and councils · 32
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.30Book IV
““For no man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him: even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 11.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“He says, “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our Spirit,” and “no one knoweth the things of a man save the Spirit of man which is in him,” and “the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life,” and “if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live,” and “if we live in the…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
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Tertullian
“For “who knoweth the things of God, and the things in God, but the Spirit, which is in Him?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment““For what man knoweth the things which be in God, but the Spirit which is in Him?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment““For who knoweth the things that be in God, except the Spirit which is in Him?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…the Divine Being, who say, God ought not to have been this, and He ought rather to have been that; as if any one knew what is in God, except the Spirit of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
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John Damascene
“And the Holy Spirit, too, so knows the things of God as the spirit of the man knows the things that are in him.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“What else is there that knoweth the deep things of God, save only the Holy Ghost, who spake the Divine Scriptures?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11.
Read the whole comment“For what man knoweth the thing of a man, save the spirit of the man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…which the bodily senses represent outward things, and up to which reach the capabilities of beasts; and thence, again, I passed on to the reasoning faculty, unto which whatever is received from the senses of the body is referred to be judged, which also, finding itself to be variable in me, raised itself up to its…” — editor's note: Here, and more explicitly in sec. 25, we have before us what has been called the “trichotomy” of man. This doctrine Augustin does not deny in theory, but…
Read the whole comment“And how can they tell, when they hear from me of myself, whether I speak the truth, seeing that no man knoweth what is in man, “save the spirit of man which is in him “?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“For it is Thou, Lord, that judgest me; for although no “man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him,” yet is there something of man which “the spirit of man which is in him” itself knoweth not.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…the apostle has excluded the Son from knowing those things which are of God, where he says, “Even so the things of God knoweth no one, but the Spirit of God:” so that these perverse men might, upon this ground, go on to say that none but the Holy Spirit teaches even the Son the things of God, as the greater teaches…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11
Read the whole comment“And of this spirit of man it is said, “No man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“As for us, we can become privy to the secrets of conscience only in so far as these are disclosed to us, and so far only do we judge: “No one knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“…is uniformly rendered “spirit,” whether of man, of whom the apostle says, “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?” or of beast, as in the book of Solomon, “Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?” or of…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“But the animal man perceiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11–14.
Read the whole comment“And then he added, “So also the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For He knows all that God knows, as also the Apostle states, saying: “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him, even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment““No one,” he says, “knoweth save the Spirit of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
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John Chrysostom
“…of the Spirit ; for as he saith that the knowledge of the Father is one with that of the Spirit, as being indeed one, and in nought varying from itself ( 1 Cor. ii. 10–12 ): so also here he hath taken hold of one certain [thing] whereby to express the subsistence of the Two.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…possible that a man should know the things of his neighbor, (for “what man,” he says, “knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?”— 1 Cor. ii. 11 ): he utters this voice after the whole sacrifice has been completed, that no person should come to the spiritual fountain carelessly and in a…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…receives the wounds, we need great watchfulness that each may prove himself; for none knoweth the things of a man as the spirit of a man that is in him. ( 1 Cor. ii. 11.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For to show that the Spirit needeth not teaching, hear Paul saying, “So also the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” ( 1 Cor. ii. 11.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For if the secrets of men cannot by any art be known, much more were it impossible to learn Christ’s purpose, except the Spirit revealed it.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 11.
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Basil the Great
“If He is called Θεὸς because He “placed” or “beholds” all things, and the Spirit knoweth all the things of God, as the Spirit in us knoweth our things, then the Holy Ghost is God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11. On the derivation of Θεός from θέω (τίθημι) or θεάομαι, cf. Greg. Naz. Skeat rejects the theory of connexion with the Latin Deus, and thinks…
Read the whole comment““For what man” it is said, “knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man but the Spirit of God.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“But, it is said, “the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth,” and yet the Spirit knoweth the things of God, as “the spirit of man that is in him.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
Read the whole comment“He knows “The deep things of God;” the creature receives the manifestation of ineffable things through the Spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11.
Read the whole comment““The Apostle rightly calls carnal them that are unbridled and carried away to their own desires, having no desire for the Holy Spirit,” and in another passage Irenæus says, “The Apostle exclaimed that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of the heavens lest we, being without share in the…” — editor's note: The reference is presumably to 1 Cor. ii. 11 and iii. 1.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“Even so the things which are in God, none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“And yet how can Wisdom be ignorant of anything—that is, Wisdom Who made the worlds, Who perfects them, Who remodels them, Who is the Limit of all things that were made, Who knoweth the things of God as the spirit of a man knows the things that are in him?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. ii. 11.
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Cross-references · 47
Cited together with
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in Confessions X.5.
Cited together in Confessions X.5.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in Catechism §152.
Cited together in Confessions X.3.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in Confessions X.5.
Cited together in Confessions X.3.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in Confessions X.5.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 28.
Cited together in Confessions X.3.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 19.
Cited together in Confessions X.5.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.30.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.30.
Cited together in Confessions VII.17.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 and 2 other places.
Cited together in Confessions VII.17.
Cited together in Confessions VII.17.
Cited together in Confessions VII.17.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith I.1 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 8.
Cited together in Against Hermogenes Chapter 18 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Catechism §687.
Cited together in Catechism §687.
Cited together in The City of God XIV.4.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.
Quotes
1 Corinthians 2:11 takes up the words of Wisdom 8:8 (8 words in common).
