...came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him1 crucified!. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in...

...heaven had not been closed against his inquiring mind. And yet he acknowledges, most impressively, " I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified." There must, therefore, be something unspeakably rich and glorious in this simple preaching...

...things move me. — God forbid, that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. — I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. — The Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom ; but we preach Christ crucified."...

...end. It may suffice to state, That the nineteenth and twentieth sermons are on 1 Cor. ii. 2, For Í determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him trucijicd; the twenty-first ù oa conformity to the world, from Rom« xii. 2 ; the twenty-second, on...

...with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. PARAPHRASE. TEXT. 2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And mjr speech,...

...mixture of human learning or philosophy ; but plainly declared it to you, as a doctrine coming from 2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech, and...

...to you, came not with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration...

...fully was the mind of the apostle occupi«d-by this subject, that his language to the Corinthians is, " I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." " Herein is love," says John, " not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and gave his...

...strictly understood, makes the Father himself ignorant of what was known to the Son. St. Paul says, " I determined not to know any thing " among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified," I Cor. ii. 2. If this be rigorously interpreted up to the letter, St. Paul must have been...

...in the meritorious sufferings of our Saviour Christ. The consideration whereof made St. Paul say, " I determined not to know any thing among you, save " Jesus Christ, and him crucified * :" namely, because this was a most essential article, the very sum and substance of the...