1 CORINTHIANS 1:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.”
For the message of the cross is foolishness (mōria) to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God — the diairesis is absolute: two kinds of humans, two opposite verdicts on the cross. 'Foolishness' (mōria) is not mere silliness but logical incoherence: a crucified messiah contradicts power. Yet for 'those being saved' (sōzomenoi, present passive), the cross is dynamis theou (God's power actively at work). The question is which world's logic one inhabits.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 1:18
To the sick and gasping even wholesome meats are unpleasant, friends and relations burdensome; who are often times not even recognized, but are rather accounted intruders. Much like this often is the case of those who are perishing in their souls. For the things which tend to salvation they know not; and those who are careful about them they consider to be troublesome. Now this ensues not from the nature of the thing, but from their disease. And just what the insane do,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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