1 CORINTHIANS 12:2 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.”
You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols — Paul reminds the Corinthians of their pre-Christian past, when they were ferried along (apago) by demonic forces toward dumb (aphōna) idols; the contrast prepares for the true nature of spiritual speech and discernment in Christ.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 12:2
This whole place is very obscure: but the obscurity is produced by our ignorance of the facts referred to and by their cessation, being such as then used to occur but now no longer take place. And why do they not happen now? Why look now, the cause too of the obscurity has produced us again another question: namely, why did they then happen, and now do so no more? This however let us defer to another time, but for the present let us state what things were occurring then.…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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