1 CORINTHIANS 1:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.”
For it is written: 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate' — quoted from Isaiah 29:14, this prophecy announces God's judgment on human wisdom (sophia). 'Destroy' (apollymi) is total; 'frustrate' (athetēō) nullifies the smart's cleverness. The Corinthians, proud of their sophists, theologians, and orators, are warned that God has declared war on human wisdom as a path to truth.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 1:19
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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