Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 1:20

20 Where is the wise? where is the Scribe? where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? .

He alludeth again to that Isa. 33.18. Where is the Scribe? where is the Receiver? Where are the wise-men amongst the Heathens? Where are the Scribes? The learned men in the Law amongst the Jews.

Where are those amongst Iews or Gentiles that are the great inquirers into the reasons and natures of things, and manage debates and disputes about them? They understand nothing of the Mysteries of the Gospel, or the way of Salvation, which God holds out to the World in and through Jesus Christ: or, where are they? What have they done by all their Philosophy and moral Doctrine, as to the turning of men from sin unto God, from ways of iniquity unto ways of righteousness, in comparison of what we the Ministers of Christ have done by preaching the Doctrine of the Gospel, and the Cross of Christ?

Do not you see how God hath fooled the wisdom of the World? making it to appear vain and contemptible, and of no use, as to the saving of mens Souls, making choice of none of their Doctors and great Rabbies, to carry that Doctrine abroad in the World, and convincing men, that without Faith in Christ, all that can be learned from them will be of no avail to the Soul.

Marginal references: Job 12.1[illegible: 1 letter], 20, 24.