20Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-31)We have here, I. The manner in which Paul preached the gospel, and the cross of Christ: Not with the wisdom of words (1 Cor. 1:17), the enticing words of man’s wisdom (1 Cor. 2:4), the flourish of oratory, or the accuracies of philosophical language, upon which the Greeks so much prided themselves, and which seem to have been the peculiar recommendations of some of the heads of the faction in this…
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