For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Ver. 18. To them that perish, foolishness] As it is to the Jews to this day, who rail against Christ's person, calling him the hanged God, the woof and the warp, Leviticus 13:52, because these two make the figure of the cross. And being asked whether they believe to be saved by Christ's righteousness, they answer, That every fox must pay his own skin to the flayer. The pagans also jeered at Christ and his people, as did Julian, Lucian, Porphyry, &c.