Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 2:12

12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world , but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God .

By the spirit of the world some understand the Devil, that evil Spirit which is in the world, and ruleth those that are worldly, carnal men: others understand a meer humane spirit, by which men understand and comprehend meer worldly things. The sense certainly is, we have not a meer worldly instruction and tutouring, we are not taught and instructed from the world (so the Spirit is put for the effects of the Spirit of the world.)

But we are taught and instructed by the holy Spirit, by which we are taught, and know the things that are freely given us of God, whether they be Divine Mysteries, or Divine benefits, both what God hath done for us, and what God hath wrought in us.

Marginal references: Rom. 8.15.