ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 1 v28

GOD CHOSE WHAT IS LOW. AMBROSIASTER: God chose ignoble and contemptible things to exalt. It is not that they are really ignoble and contemptible; this is how the world sees them. By believing in Christ they have overturned worldly reasoning. God did this in order to destroy things which are really ignoble and contemptible, because those who judged were more deserving of judgment and condemnation. Their teaching was asserted in words but not demonstrated in power, and so it was destroyed. Our teaching is proved true not only by words but by power as well. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.5

THINGS THAT ARE NOT. THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: Paul uses the expression “things that are not” differently here from the way he uses it in his epistle to the Romans. Here it means simply that which is vile and contemptible, as opposed to “things that are,” which are beautiful, powerful and respected. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.6

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