And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom. The Apostle here descends from the general to the particular. In other words: I said in the preceding chapter that God in preaching the Gospel willed not to use the wisdom of the wise in this world, but rejected it and scorned it, but willed by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe; and therefore He chose not many noble or wise to spread the Gospel, but the low-born and untaught Apostles. From this I infer and say "And I" i.e, and so I as one of the number of the Apostles, who, according to the election and will of God, did not use eloquence and worldly Wisdom of Solomon , was unwilling to use those means, and I came to you not in excellency but in simplicity of speech and wisdom.
