“And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:”
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power — 'wise and persuasive words' (sophia kai logoi pithoi tēs sophias) represent the sophistic ideal: rhetorical mastery. Instead, Paul's preaching came 'with demonstration of the Spirit's power' (apodeixei pneumatos kai dynameos). The Spirit's work is not decorative but constitutive; it is the power that transforms hearers. Corinth would have measured Paul as a weak speaker.
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