20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
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But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-21)A scholar that has acquaintance, and is in love, with the learning of the ancients, would think he should be very happy if he were where Paul now was, at Athens, in the midst of the various sects of philosophers, and would have a great many curious questions to ask them, for the explication of the remains we have of the Athenian learning; but Paul, though bred a scholar, and an ingenious active ma…
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