(12) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; (o) comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
(12) Now he returns to his purpose, and concludes the argument which he began in verse six (1 Corinthians 2:6), and it is this: the words must be applied to the matter, and the matter must be set forth with words which are proper and appropriate for it: now this wisdom is spiritual and not from man, and therefore it must be delivered by a spiritual type of teaching, and not by enticing words of man's eloquence, so that the simple, and yet wonderful majesty of the Holy Spirit may appear in it.
(o) Applying the words to the matter, that is, that as we teach spiritual things, so must our type of teaching be spiritual.