Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
1 Corinthians 2:7
We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery. The Greeks had their
mysteries, like the Eleusinian, in which secrets were imparted to the
initiated. A mystery is a secret as yet not made known. The wisdom of
God in the gospel was a mystery hidden until Christ came, and since
then fully comprehended only by "the initiated", the full-grown
Christians. The apostolic sense of "mystery" is that which was hidden,
but is now disclosed to those who accept the gospel. Those who will not
receive the gospel cannot comprehend this wisdom. See Romans 16:25
Ephesians 3:6 1Ti 3:16.
[Even] the hidden [wisdom]. Long hidden, though existing in God's
plans made
before the world. Before the "age" (Revised Version, margin). The
Greek word "aion" is correctly "ages". The Jewish age of dispensation
may be meant, or it may mean the ages of man's existence. This hidden
wisdom proposed all through the dispensations the glory of God's chosen
ones.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Corinthians 2:7
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1 Corinthians 3:3
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