...world in our version. In 1 Cor. 2: 6 —8. it is said. " howbeit we speak wisdom among them that arc perfect; yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to naught: but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before...

..." The foolishness of God," says St. Paul, " is wiser than men." *' Howbeit," he adds soon after, " we speak wisdom among them that are perfect; yet not...of the princes of this world, that come to nought." 1 Cor. ii. 6. Set this foolishness of God in full contrast to worldly wisdom. God not only forewarned...

...we speak wisdom, as he says elsewhere, among them that are perfect, or are arrived at full age ; " the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,...which God ordained before the world unto our glory." Not keeping this object steadily in view, our advancement in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,...

...and spiritual, agreeably to the doctrine of the apostle, 1 Cor. ii. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, " We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,...which God ordained before the world unto our glory : which none of the princes of this world knew : for had they known it, they would not have crucified...

...wise : and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. 2. 6. Yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought. 12. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God. 3. 19. For the...

...wisdom of God which is so gloriously displayed in the contrivance of the work of our redemption. Here is the wisdom of God " in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world for our glory." Think of the measures God hath taken, the means he hath devised, that the banished...

...25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. 6 Howbeit, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the. wisdom of this world, flor of the princes of this world, that come to nought ; * 26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how...

...unbeseeming the sons of the Most High. { It is a spirit of wisdom that animateth all the saints. " Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect;...which God ordained before the world unto our glory." It is the treasures of wisdom that dwell in Christ, and are communicated to his members. We must "walk...

...and him crucified. f3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much tremhling. 6 Howheit, we speak wisdom among them that are perfect : yet...of the princes of this world, that come to nought : 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, hut in the power of God. t 7 But we speak...

...grow thereby ; to them that are perfect (in the sense of the apostle to the Corinthians,*J it is " the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom...which God ordained before the world unto our glory." In short, to lost, fallen, guilty, corrupt man, in every step of his pilgrimage from sin to holiness,...