1 CORINTHIANS 2:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.”
'For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?' But we have the mind of Christ — the rhetorical question from Isaiah 40:13 is answered: no one knows the Lord's mind to instruct him. Yet Paul makes the astonishing claim: believers 'have the mind of Christ' (noun Christou). This is not individual possession but corporate participation: through the Spirit, the church shares Christ's perspective, his values, his way of seeing reality. The Corinthians' divisions show they have not yet grasped this shared mind.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 2:16
“The natural man receives not the things of the Spirit.” It is necessary then to lay it aside first. “What then,” some man will say; “is the wisdom from without stigmatized? And yet it is the work of God.” How is this clear? Since He made it not, but it was an invention of yours. For in this place he calls by the term “wisdom” curious research and superfluous elegance of words. But should any one say that he means the human understanding; even in this sense the fault is…
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