Anf-03 v.iv.iii.ii Pg 20
1 Cor. i. 25.
Accordingly, God is then especially great, when He is small2718 2718 Pusillus.
to man; then especially good, when not good in man’s judgment; then especially unique, when He seems to man to be two or more. Now, if from the very first “the natural man, not receiving the things of the Spirit of God,”2719 2719
Anf-03 v.iv.vi.v Pg 33
1 Cor. i. 25.
but the nativity and incarnation5417 5417 Caro.
of God? If, however, Christ was not born of the Virgin, was not constituted of human flesh, and thereby really suffered neither death nor the cross, there was nothing in Him either of foolishness or weakness; nor is it any longer true, that “God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;” nor, again, hath “God chosen the weak things of the world to confound the mighty;” nor “the base things” and the least things “in the world, and things which are despised, which are even as nothing” (that is, things which really5418 5418 Vere.
are not), “to bring to nothing things which are” (that is, which really are).5419 5419
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 1
VERSE (25) - :18,27-29 Ex 13:17; 14:2-4 Jos 6:2-5 Jud 7:2-8; 15:15,16
