1 CORINTHIANS 3:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.”
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: 'He catches the wise in their craftiness' — the inversion is total: worldly 'wisdom' is 'foolishness' (mōria) from God's perspective. The quotation from Job 5:13 emphasizes God's exposure of the wise's 'craftiness' (panourgia, cunning). God does not debate sophists; he catches them in the nets of their own logic.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 3:19
As I said before, having launched out before the proper time into accusation of the fornicator, and having half opened it obscurely in a few words, and made the man's conscience to quail, he hastens again to the battle with heathen wisdom, and to his accusations of those who were puffed up there-with, and who were dividing the Church: in order that having added what remained and completed the whole topic with accuracy, he might thenceforth suffer his tongue to be carried away…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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