“ For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: ”
For the Jews require a sign - A miracle, a prodigy, an evidence of divine interposition. This was the characteristic of the Jewish people. God had manifested himself to them by miracles and wonde...
(25) For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: (25) A declaration of that which he said: that the preaching of the Gospel is foolish. It is foolish, he says, to those whom God h...
1 Corinthians 1:18 to 1 Corinthians 2:5 . The Cross, Folly to the World, is the Power and Wisdom of God. Paul now explains and justifies 1 Corinthians 1:17 b , which to Greek readers must hav...
the. Omit. require . ask. App-134. sign . App-176. The texts read "signs". seek after . seek.
22. For the Jews require a sign This is explanatory of the preceding statement — showing in what respects the preaching of the gospel is accounted foolishness At the same time he does not...
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: For the Jews require a sign - Instead of σημειον, a sign, ABCDEFG, several others, both the Syriac, Coptic, Vulgate, and Itala, with man...
For the Jews, &c.— Whereas the Jews require signs, and the Gentiles seek after wisdom; 1 Corinthians 1:23 . We, nevertheless, preach Christ crucified,—and unto the Gentiles foolishness: 1...
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: For - literally, Whereas. A B C Delta, Vulgate, add 'also,' taking up the "whereas" of 1 Corinthians 1:21 , and additionally il...
Greeting and Thanksgiving. Partisanship in the Church St. Paul, after greeting the Church and giving thanks for its spiritual gifts, rebukes the preference for various teachers which was prevalent...
For. — This is a further unfolding of the fact of the simplicity of the preaching of the Cross. It pandered neither to Jewish-minded persons (not in the Greek “ the Jews,” “the Gentiles,” but si...
Chapter 4 THE FOOLISHNESS OF PREACHING In the preceding section of this Epistle Paul introduced the subject which was prominent in his thoughts as he wrote: the divided state of the Corinthian C...
the Cross God's Saving Power 1 Corinthians 1:12-25 Apollos had gone straight from Ephesus to Corinth, Acts 19:1 . A party gathered around him, especially attracted by his eloquence and inte...
The epistle is to the Church. Its messages are only for those who have been brought into fellowship with Jesus Christ. The character of the Church is indicated in the words, "sanctified in Christ Jes...
(18) For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (19) For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bri...
A MESSAGE FOR JEW AND GREEK ‘The Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified.’ 1 Corinthians 1:22-23 St. Paul is here contrasting the expectations w...
For the Jews require a sign ,.... The Jews had always been used to miracles, in confirmation of the mission of the prophets sent unto them, and therefore insisted on a sign proving Jesus to be the t...
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: Ver. 22. For the Jews require, &c. ] The reason of their rejecting the gospel is, they are prepossessed against it; they look fo...
For the Jews require a sign Demand of the apostles, as they did of their Lord, more signs still, after all they have seen already. And the Greeks Or Gentiles; seek after wisdom The depths of ph...
Paul writes here as "a called apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God." As such, it is the authoritative word of God he communicates, that which requires the subjection and obedience of all the Ch...
The Efficacy of the Gospel; The Character of the Gospel. A. D. 57. 17 For Christ sent me not...
The Jews were not without some true Divine revelation, and owned the true God, and only desired some miraculous operation from Christ, Matthew 12:38 1 Thessalonians 4:48 , to confirm them that...
They Are Thus Rather To Look To God's Wisdom (1:22-25). ‘Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumblingblock, and to Gentiles foo...
CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 1:19-20 .— Isaiah 29:14 (nearly as LXX.), and a free imitation of Isaiah 30:18 . For .—Sustains the general drift of 1 Corinthians 1:17-18 , not any particular...
1. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, This brother had been put to great shame. He was beaten before the judgment-seat, if you reme...
1 Corinthians 1:1 . Paul, called to be an apostle. It was proper to mention this, else he would have had no title to address his letter to the Corinthians, and the catholic church, or saints in ge...
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel. Paul’s preaching I. It exalted the Cross of Christ as the central element of the gospel. The apostle does not teach that truths asso...
EXPOSITION The oldest superscription was probably, "To the Corinthians, the first (Πρὸς Κορινθίους πρώτη)." This is found in א, A, B, C, D. 1 Corinthians 1:1-46 The greeting. An ope...
The foolishness of God wiser than men:
Acts 17:18-21 ; John 2:18 ; John 4:28 ; Luke 11:16 ; Luke 11:20 ; Mark 8:11 ; Matthew 12:38 ; Matthew 12:39 ; Matthew 16:1-4
The Church of God at Corinth 1 Corinthians 1:1-30 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We propose taking several studies from the First Epistle to the Corinthians. There will be much to consider here which shou...
For whereas the Jews demand of the apostles, as they did of their Lord, more signs still, after all they have seen already; and the Greeks, or gentiles, seek wisdom — The depths of philosophy, and...