1 Corinthians 2
2
1When I came to you, Achim b'Moshiach, I did not come preaching and announcing to you the sod Hashem (mystery of G-d) as a ba'al melitzot (rhetorician, fine talker) or in the excellence of chochmah.
2For I made the decision not to have da'as of anything among you except Moshiach and nivlato al haEtz#2:2 Dt 21:23 (his body — gufa, bar-minen — on the Boim [Yiddish for tree]).
3And I came to you#2:3 Ac 18:1 in weakness#2:3 1C 1:25,27 and in yir'at Shomayim and in fear and in much trembling I was with you,
4And my speech and my hachrazah (proclamation, kyrygma, preaching) to you of the Besuras HaGeulah of Hashem was not in persuasive words but in the demonstration of the Ruach Hakodesh and the gevurat Hashem (power of G-d),#2:4 1C 1:17
5That the#2:5 orthodox Jewish emunah (faith) of you may not be in the [Olam Hazeh] “chochmah” of Bnei Adam, but in the gevurat Hashem.#2:5 1:17
6But we do speak chochmah (wisdom) to the man who is mevugar (mature, grown up), to those with mature ruchaniyut (spirituality in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach), yet, it is a chochmah (wisdom) not of the Olam Hazeh, neither of the rulers of the Olam Hazeh,#2:6 Ro 13:3 the ones being brought to naught.#2:6 Ps 146:4
7But we speak the chochmah of Hashem in a hidden sod (mystery),#2:7 1C 2:1 which was nigzar merosh (determined from the beginning, preordained, predestined, decided beforehand) by Hashem lifnei yemei haOlam (before the days of eternity) for our kavod (glory);#2:7 Ro 8:29-30
8A chochmah which not one of the rulers of the Olam Hazeh has known, for, if they had had da'as, they would not have made talui al HaEtz HaKelalat Hashem#2:8 Dt 21:23 (being hanged on the Tree of the Curse of G-d) the#2:8 Moshiach Adon HaKavod.#2:8 Ps 24:7
9But even as it has been written, Things which no eye has seen and LO SHAMU (they had not heard) nor did it come up into the heart of Bnei Adam, the things G-d prepared for the ones who have ahavah for him.#2:9 Isa 64:4 [3]; TARGUM HASHIVIM; Isa 52:15
10But Hashem has made the hitgalut haSod (the revelation of the mystery) to us of these things through the Ruach Hakodesh; for the Ruach Hakodesh searches all things, even the deep things of G-d.
11For who of Bnei Adam has da'as of the things of Bnei Adam except the ruach of a man in him? So also the things of G-d no one has known except the Ruach Hashem.#2:11 Jer 17:9; Prov 20:27
12Now we have not received the ruach of the Olam Hazeh but the Ruach Hakodesh from Hashem, that we may have da'as of the things having been freely given to us by Hashem,
13Which things also we speak, not in devarim (words) taught by chochmah haBnei Adam, but in devarim taught by the Ruach Hakodesh, making midrash#2:13 exposition, interpretation of the things of the Ruach Hakodesh#2:13 1C 2:12 by means of the words of the Ruach Hakodesh.
14But a natural person does not receive the things of the Ruach Hakodesh of Hashem, for they are narrishkait (foolishness)#2:14 1C 1:21-24 to him, and he is not able to have personal saving da'as of them, because they are discerned in the Ruach Hakodesh.
15Now the man of the Ruach Hakodesh discerns all things, but, by no one is he discerned.
16For, “Who has known the mind of Hashem so as to instruct Him?”#2:16 Isa 40:13 TARGUM HASHIVIM But we have the mind of Moshiach.
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1 Corinthians 2
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1And that’s how it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I didn’t use fancy words or human wisdom to preach the truth to you about God’s love. 2My goal while I was with you was to talk about only one thing: Jesus Christ and his death on the cross. 3When I came to you, I was weak and afraid and shaking all over. 4I didn’t preach my message with clever and compelling words. Instead, my preaching showed the Holy Spirit’s power. 5This was so that your faith would be based on God’s power and not on human wisdom.
God’s Wisdom Through the Holy Spirit
6However, when we speak to those who are mature in the faith, we do share our wisdom. But it’s not the wisdom of this world or its rulers, who are fading away. 7No, we share God’s wisdom, which is a mystery that has been hidden until now. But before time began, God planned that this wisdom would bring us heavenly glory. 8None of the rulers of this world understood God’s wisdom. If they had, they wouldn’t have nailed the Lord of glory to the cross. 9It is written that
“no eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
and no human mind has imagined”
the things God has prepared for those who love him.
10But God has shown these things to us through his Spirit.
The Spirit understands all things, even the deep things of God. 11Who can know the thoughts of another person? Only that person’s own spirit. In the same way, only the Spirit of God knows God’s thoughts. 12What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we can understand what God has freely given us. 13That’s what we speak about, and we don’t use words that we’ve learned from human wisdom. We use words that the Holy Spirit has taught us, and we use them to explain spiritual truths. 14The person who doesn’t have the Spirit doesn’t accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. Those things seem foolish to them, and they can’t understand them, because they can’t be understood without the Spirit’s help. 15But the person who does have the Spirit can make judgments about everything, though no human being can judge them. It is written,
16“Who can ever know the Lord’s mind?
Can anyone teach him anything?”
But we have the mind of Christ.
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