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  • From: Peter Kirby <kirby AT earthlink.net>
  • To: Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] 1 Cor 2:6-8
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 14:33:40 -0700

On Friday 16 May 2003 04:33 pm, Peter Kirby wrote:
> Paul writes:
>
> 6 Yet we do speak a wisdom to those who are mature, but not a wisdom of
> this age, nor of the rulers of this age who are passing away.
> 7 Rather, we speak God's wisdom, mysterious, hidden, which God
> predetermined before the ages for our glory,
> 8 and which none of the rulers of this age knew; for if they had known it,
> they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
>
> I am trying to decide whether the passage has in mind heavenly rulers or
> earthly rulers.

As a followup on this, I would like to thank Richard Fellows for providing
information and some relevant articles, which are quite helpful. There is
still one question that I haven't seen resolved. Here is the Greek.

1Cor 2:6. SOFI/AN DE\ LALOU=MEN E)N TOI=S TELEI/OIS, SOFI/AN DE\ OU) TOU=
AI)W=NOS TOU/TOU OU)DE\ TW=N A)RXO/NTWN TOU= AI)W=NOS TOU/TOU TW=N
KATARGOUME/NWN.

My question is, does Paul make a distinction between the wisdom "of this age"
and the wisdom "of the rulers of this age"? That is, could the "wisdom of
this age" be that of human beings, while the wisdom "of the rulers of this
age" is bringing in a related but separate concept of the ignorance of
demonic powers? If not, why does Paul repeat himself by referring to the
wisdom as being both "of this age" and "of the rulers of this age"? Thanks.

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  • Re: [Corpus-Paul] 1 Cor 2:6-8, Peter Kirby, 06/20/2003

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