1 Corinthians 1:20 KJV — MannaFest

1 Corinthians 1:20

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

KJV

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ASV

Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

WEB

Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?

YLT

where is the wise? where the scribe? where a disputer of this age? did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world?

DBT

Where [is the] wise? where scribe? where disputer of this world? has notGod made foolish the wisdom of the world?

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1 Corinthians — A pastoral letter answering a long list of questions and problems — unity, ethics, worship, and the resurrection — written to a gifted but divided church.

Author: Paul, with Sosthenes (1:1)
Date: c. AD 55, from Ephesus

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1 Corinthians 1:27
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
Romans 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Acts 17:18
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
Job 12:17
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
1 Corinthians 1:19
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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, All the valued learning of this world was confounded, baffled, and eclipsed, by the Christian revelation and the glorious triumphs of the cross. The heathen politicians and philosophers, the Jewish rabbis and doctors, the curious searchers into the secrets of nature, were all posed and put to a nonplus.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

VITRINGA thinks the reference is to the Jewish discourses in the synagogue, daraschoth, from a Hebrew root "to dispute." Compare "questions," Ac 26:3; If so, "wise" refers to Greek wisdom (compare 1Co 1:22). Paul applies Isa 33:18 here in a higher sense; there the primary reference was to temporal deliverance, here to external;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Where is the wise? &c. - The deliverance of Judea from Sennacherib is what Isaiah refers to in these words; in a bold and beautiful allusion to which, the apostle in the clause that follows triumphs over all the opposition of human wisdom to the victorious gospel of Christ.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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1CO 1:201CO 1:19 ISA 29:14
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1CO 1:201CO 3:19 JOB 5:13
1CO 1:201CO 3:19 1CO 1:19-20
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1CO 1:201CO 1:19 JER 8:9
1CO 1:201CO 1:19 1CO 3:19
1CO 1:201CO 1:19 JOB 5:12-13
1CO 1:201CO 3:19 PSA 141:10
1CO 1:201CO 3:19 ROM 1:21-22

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