1 CORINTHIANS 1:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?”
Where is the wise person? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? — four rhetorical questions press the point home with mounting force. 'This age' (ho aiōn houtos) is ruled by principalities that do not know God (2:8). The 'wisdom of the world' (sophia tou kosmou) is not benign knowledge but ideological blindness that mistakes power for truth and eloquence for wisdom.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 1:20
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,…
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