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7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God1 ordained before the ages for our glory,  
8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for ahad they known, they would not have bcrucified the Lord of glory.  
9 But as it is written:
a“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”  
10 But aGod has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.  
11 For what man knows the things of a man except the aspirit of the man which is in him? bEven so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God.  
12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but athe Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.  
13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the1 Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.  
14 aBut the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.  
15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.
16 For a“who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” bBut we have the mind of Christ. 
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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1 Corinthians 2:9

But—(it has happened) as it is written.

Eye hath not seen, etc.—ALFORD translates, "The things which eye saw not . . . the things which God prepared . . . to us God revealed through His Spirit." Thus, however, the "but" of I Corinthians 2:10 is ignored. Rather construe, as ESTIUS, "('We speak,' supplied from I Corinthians 2:8), things which eye saw not (heretofore), . . . things which God prepared . . . But God revealed them to us," etc. The quotation is not a verbatim one, but an inspired exposition of the "wisdom" (I Corinthians 2:6, from Isaiah 64:4). The exceptive words, "O God, beside (that is, except) Thee," are not quoted directly, but are virtually expressed in the exposition of them (I Corinthians 2:10), "None but thou, O God, seest these mysteries, and God hath revealed them to us by His Spirit."

entered—literally, "come up into the heart." A Hebraism (compare, Jeremiah 3:16, Margin). In Isaiah 64:4 it is "Prepared (literally, 'will do') for him that waiteth for Him"; here, "for them that love Him." For Isaiah spake to them who waited for Messiah's appearance as future; Paul, to them who love Him as having actually appeared (I John 4:19); compare I Corinthians 2:12, "the things that are freely given to us of God"




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