1 CORINTHIANS 1:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:”
Jews demand signs, Greeks look for wisdom — two cultures, two ultimate desires. 'Signs' (sēmeia) prove divine authorization; 'wisdom' (sophia) demonstrates intellectual mastery. Both are human frameworks of evaluation. Both will fail to grasp the cross unless the Spirit opens eyes. Corinth's mixed population likely included both Jewish and pagan wisdom-seekers who could not fit the crucified Christ into their categories.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 1:22
Next, to show the power of the Cross, he says, “For Jews ask for signs and Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto Jews a stumbling-block, and unto Greeks foolishness; but unto them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the Power of God, and the Wisdom of God.” Vast is the import of the things here spoken! For he means to say how by contraries God has overcome, and how the Gospel is not of man. What he says is something of this sort. When, says…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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