1 Corinthians 1:21

MSTC⁽ⁱ⁾ ²¹ For when the world, through wisdom, knew not God in the wisdom of God: it pleased God through foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

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in.
1 Corinthians 1:24; Daniel 2:20; Romans 11:33; Ephesians 3:10
the wisdom.Dr. Lightfoot well observes, "that [sophia tou theos,] the wisdom of God, is not to be understood of that wisdom which had God for its author, but of that wisdom which had God for its object. There was, among the heathen, [sophia tes physeos,] wisdom about natural things, that is philosophy; and [sophia tou theos,] wisdom about God, that is, divinity. But the world, in its divinity, could not, by wisdom, know God." The wisest of the heathen had no just and correct views of the Divine nature; of which the works of Cicero and Lucretius are incontestable proofs.
the world.
Matthew 11:25; Luke 10:21; Romans 1:20-22; Romans 1:28
the foolishness.
1 Corinthians 1:18