Teks -- 1 Corinthians 1:27 (NET)

1:27 But God chose what the world thinks foolish to shame the wise, and God chose what the world thinks weak to shame the strong.

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Robertson: 1Co 1:27 - God chose

God chose ( exelexato ho theos ).

First aorist middle of eklegō , old verb to pick out, to choose, the middle for oneself. It expands the idea in klēsin (1Co 1:26). Three times this solemn verb occurs here with the purpose stated each time. Twice the same purpose is expressed, that he might put to shame (hina kataischunēi , first aorist active subjunctive with hina of old verb kataischunō , perfective use of kata ). The purpose in the third example is that he might bring to naught (hina katargēsēi , make idle, argos , rare in old Greek, but frequent in Paul). The contrast is complete in each paradox: the foolish things (ta mōra ), the wild men (tous sophous ); the weak things (ta asthenē ), the strong things (ta ischura ); the things that are not (ta mē onta ), and that are despised (ta exouthenēmena , considered nothing, perfect passive participle of exoutheneō ), the things that are (ta onta ). It is a studied piece of rhetoric and powerfully put.

Vincent: 1Co 1:27 - Hath chosen

Hath chosen

The threefold repetition of the word emphasizes the deliberate and free action of God's gracious will.

JFB: 1Co 1:27 - the foolish things

A general phrase for all persons and things foolish. Even things (and those, too, foolish things) are chosen by God to confound persons, (and those too persons who are wise). This seems to me the force of the change from neuter to masculine.

JFB: 1Co 1:27 - to confound

The Greek is stronger, "that He might confound (or put to shame)." God confounds the wise by effecting through His instruments, without human wisdom, that the worldly wise, with it, cannot effect, namely, to bring men to salvation.

JFB: 1Co 1:27 - chosen . . . chosen

The repetition indicates the gracious deliberateness of God's purpose (Jam 2:5).

Clarke: 1Co 1:27 - But God hath chosen the foolish things

But God hath chosen the foolish things - God has chosen by means of men who are esteemed rude and illiterate to confound the greatest of the Greek philosophers, and overturn their systems; and, by means of men weak, without secular power or authority, to confound the scribes and Pharisees, and in spite of the exertions of the Jewish sanhedrin, to spread the doctrine of Christ crucified all over the land of Judea, and by such instruments as these to convert thousands of souls to the faith of the Gospel, who are ready to lay down their lives for the truth. The Jews have proverbs that express the same sense as these words of the apostle. In Shemoth Rabba, sec. 17, fol. 117, it is said: "There are certain matters which appear little to men, yet by them God points out important precepts. Thus hyssop in the sight of man is worth nothing, but in the sight of God its power is great; sometimes he equals it to the cedar, particularly in the ordinance concerning the lepers, and in the burning of the red heifer. Thus God commanded them in Egypt, Exo 12:22 : And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, etc. And concerning Solomon it is said, 1Ki 4:33 : And he discoursed of trees, from the cedar on Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of the wall. Whence we may learn that great and small things are equal in the eyes of the Lord, and that even by small things He can work great miracles."

TSK: 1Co 1:27

Psa 8:2; Isa 26:5, Isa 26:6, Isa 29:14, Isa 29:19; Zep 3:12; Mat 4:18-22, Mat 9:9, Mat 11:25; Mat 21:16; Luk 19:39, Luk 19:40, Luk 21:15; Act 4:11-21, Act 6:9, Act 6:10, Act 7:35, Act 7:54, Act 17:18; Act 24:24, Act 24:25; 2Co 4:7, 2Co 10:4, 2Co 10:5, 2Co 10:10

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Poole: 1Co 1:27

God hath even amongst you chosen persons that are in the account of the world as foolish things, to put the wise to shame; and persons of weak esteem, to confound those that are mighty in the repute of the world.

Haydock: 1Co 1:26-28 - Vocation // From him you are in Christ Jesus // And the mean things

Vocation, is here used for the called, as Romans iii. 30. circumcision for the circumcised, (Romans xi. 7.) election for the elect. (Bible de Vence) ---

Consider you manner of being called; not many, hitherto, of those who have believed, or of those who have preached the gospel, are wise according to the flesh, or as to worldly wisdom; and in the esteem of men, not many mighty, not many noble. God hath chosen such as are looked upon as illiterate, without power, without riches, without human wisdom, to confound the great and wise men: He hath chosen the things that are not, that is, says St. John Chrysostom, men reputed as nothing, of no consideration, to confound, to destroy, to make subject to him, and to the gospel, men who had the greatest worldly advantages, that no flesh, no men how great, wise, rich, or powerful soever, might glory in his sight, or attribute their call, and their salvation to their own merits. ---

From him you are in Christ Jesus brought to believe in him, who is made to us wisdom, acknowledged to be the wisdom of his eternal Father, by whom we have been justified, sanctified, redeemed. We have nothing of ourselves to boast of, and can only glory in the Lord. (Witham) ---

And the mean things. In the beginning of Christianity, it was frequently objected to the Christians, that they had none but men of the basest extraction. The emperor Julian likewise made the Catholics the same reproach. (Grotius) ---

But this objection was not founded; for we find many persons of considerable mention in the Scriptures, who had embraced Christianity. Witness, ver. 1. of this chap. Sosthenes, the head of the synagogue at Corinth, and some in the very palace of Cæsar.

Gill: 1Co 1:27 - But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world // to confound the wise // and God hath chosen the weak things of the world // to confound the things which are mighty

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world,.... So the Jews, in distinction from their wise Rabbins and doctors, call others, טפשין דעלמא, "the fools of the world" ^p; the persons whom God made choice of from all eternity, as appears by his calling them in time, are such who with respect to the wisdom of the world are foolish; have not those natural parts and abilities, that sagacity and penetration in things natural and civil, that knowledge and learning which many others have; and are therefore esteemed foolish by the men of the world, in comparison of whom; who are the wise and prudent, they are but babes: and God's end in his choice of them, and calling them, is

to confound the wise; who sooner or later will be brought to shame and confusion, to see such idiots, as they took them to be, wiser than they in the business of salvation; having been directed and influenced by divine grace to choose that good part, which shall never be taken from them, when they will be stripped of their nobility, wealth, and wisdom; to see these men go into the kingdom of heaven, and they themselves shut out:

and God hath chosen the weak things of the world; who cannot boast of their birth and pedigree, of their ancient and illustrious families; have no titles of honour to aggrandize them, nor estates, possessions, and worldly substance to support themselves with; and this he has done,

to confound the things which are mighty; as Haman was by the advancement of Mordecai. It will be to the utter confusion of the rich and mighty, to see persons of the lowest class in life made kings and priests by Christ, set among princes, and upon the throne of glory; and they themselves fleeing, and calling to the mountains to fall upon them, and cover them from the sight of him that sits on the throne, and the Lamb,