“This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.”
Such wisdom does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil — the 'wisdom' that emerges from envy and selfish ambition is recharacterized: it is not sophia (true wisdom) but a false wisdom that is ependemos (earthly/terrestrial, belonging only to this realm), psychikos (unspiritual/natural, lacking the pneuma), and daimoniōdēs (demonic, from demons). The triadic condemnation establishes this 'wisdom' as thoroughly corrupted, antithetical to the divine wisdom of 1:5.
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