Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 2:13

13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which mans wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth , comparing spiritual things with spiritual .

Reason and all practice directeth men to speak and write of subjects in a stile and phrase fitted to the matter about which they write or discourse. Our subjects, saith the Apostle, were sublime spiritual subjects; therefore I did not discourse them like an Orator, with an excellency of speech or wisdom (as v. 1.) or with the inticing or perswasive words of mens wisdom, as he had said v. 4. nor with words which mans wisdom teacheth (which is his phrase here) but with words which the Holy Ghost hath taught us, either in holy Writ, or by its impressions upon our minds, where they are first formed.

Fitting spiritual things to spiritual persons who are able to understand them, or fitting a spiritual language to spiritual matter, speaking the Oracles of God as the Oracles of God, 1 Pet. 4.11. not declaiming like an Orator, nor arguing philosophically like an Athenian Philosopher, but using a familiar, plain, spiritual stile, giving you the naked Truths of God without any paint or gawdry of Phrase.

Marginal references: 2 Pet. 1.16. See Chap. 1.17.