Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 2:1

ANd I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech, or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

It should seem by the Apostles so often declaring against that vanity, that even that Age much admired a stile, and Ministers in sacred things delivering their minds, not in a meer decent, but in a lofty, high-flown phrase, and that they [illegible: 1 word] S. Paul, because his phrase did not so tickle their ears. The Apostle had declared against this, Chap. 1.17. there he called it the Wisdom of words; here he calls it, an excellency of speech, v. 4. the inticing words of mans wisdom: Chap. 4.19. the words of them that are puffed up; puffed up with conceits of their own parts and abilities. S. Paul declares, that this was not his way of preaching, he came to declare to them the Gospel, which he calleth the Testimony of God: this needed no fine words, and excellent phrase, and language to set it forth.