1 CORINTHIANS 1:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:”
Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by worldly standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth — Paul's 'not many' (ou polloi) is devastating social commentary. The Corinthian church, though perhaps prosperous, was not filled with the intellectual elite, the politically powerful, or the aristocracy. This fact subverts their status anxiety. God's choice of the 'not many' wise/powerful/noble is deliberate.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 1:26
He has said that “the foolishness of God is wiser than men;” he has showed that human wisdom is cast out, both by the testimony of the Scriptures and by the issue of events; by the testimony, where he says, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;” by the event, putting his argument in the form of a question, and saying, “Where is the wise? Where the Scribe?” Again; he proved at the same time that the thing is not new, but ancient, as it was presignified and foretold from the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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