John Trapp on 1 Corinthians 2:12

Verſe 12. Not the ſpirit of the world] The world lieth down in that unclean one, and is under the power and vaſſallage of that ſpirit that worketh in the children of diſobedience, as a Smith in his forge, 1 Joh. 5.19. Epheſ. 2.2. It is wholly ſet upon wickedneſſe, as Aaron ſaith of the people, Exod. 32.22.

That we might know] A ſweet mercy; The Cormorants of the world will not let their heirs know what they will do for them, till they die. But God aſſures his of heaven afore-hand. Thus we have not received the ſpirit of this world: we cannot ſhift and plot as they can; but we have received a better thing, and have no reaſon to repine.