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1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 2
1Co_2:1-5 Paul declareth that he used not human learning and
eloquence in preaching the gospel to his converts,
that their faith, being built on the testimony of the
Spirit, and on miracles, might be solely ascribed to God.
1Co_2:6-13 The gospel doth contain God’s wise, but secret,
counsel for bringing men to glory; which no natural
abilities could discover, but the Spirit of God only,
by which it was revealed to the apostles.
1Co_2:14-16 Upon this account, both the doctrine and its teachers
are held in disesteem by the mere natural man, who is
not duly qualified to judge of and discern them.
It should seem by the apostle’s so often declaring against that vanity, that even that age much admired a style, and ministers in sacred things delivering their minds, not in a mere decent, but in a lofty, high-flown phrase; and that they vilified St. Paul, because his phrase did not so tickle their ears. The apostle had declared against this, 1Co_1:17; there he called it the wisdom of words; here he calls it an excellency of speech: 1Co_1:4, the enticing words of man’s wisdom: 1Co_4:19, the speech of them which are puffed up; puffed up with conceits of their own parts and abilities. St. Paul declares, that this was not his way of preaching, he came to declare to them the gospel, which he calleth the testimony of God: this needed no fine words, and excellent phrase and language, to set it forth.