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25. ὅτι τὸ μωρὸν τοῦ θεοῦ. Dean Colet remarks that this may either refer to what precedes or what follows. If to the latter, it refers to those who receive the Gospel, who are wiser and more powerful than other men. If the former, we must explain it thus. What was folly in the eyes of the Greek, or weakness in the eyes of the Jew, was yet far wiser and stronger than their highest conceptions. The revelation of God in the man Christ Jesus—the foolishness of God, the Infinite allying itself to the Finite—was the perfection of the Divine Wisdom; the crucifixion of sin in the Death of Christ—the weakness of God, God suffering, dying—was the highest manifestation of Divine Power, in that it destroyed what nothing else could destroy. For Christ, by submitting to the Law of God as it affected sinful man, made reconciliation for sin, and gave to all who by faith in His Blood united themselves to Him the power to destroy sin, and to become one with God.