neither have, &c. = and went not (Greek. Rather construe, as Estius, "('We speak,' supplied from 1Co 2:8), things which eye saw not (heretofore), … things which God prepared … But God revealed them to us," &c. The quotation is not a verbatim one, but an inspired exposition of the "wisdom" (1Co 2:6, from Isa 64:4). BibliographyBullinger, Ethelbert William. & Jarchi in Isaiah 64.4. But see what the New Testament says, “God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit.” You see the Lord hath revealed them unto us: “For the Spirit searches all things—yea, the deep things of God.” 1 Corinthians 2:10 God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit. "None but thou, O God, sees these mysteries: God hath revealed them to us by His spirit. The idea is, that men had never known any other God than Jehovah who did, or could do, what he threatened to do. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/1-corinthians-2.html. ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use our convenient, Neither have entered into the heart of man -, John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, neither have entered into the heart of man, The things which God hath prepared for them that love him, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament, á¼ÏεκάλÏ
Ïεν δὲ ἡμá¿Î½ ὠθεÏÏ, Ïοá¿Ï á½ÏομενοῦÏιν αá½ÏÏν, Expository Notes with Practical Observations on the New Testament. The Greek is, 'We speak (supplied from 1 Corinthians 2:8) things which eye saw not (heretofore), etc., things which [A B read "as many things soever as:" hosa (Greek #3745). This is the truth for which the apostle cites the authority of the Old Testament. College Press, Joplin, MO. 7. The Expositor's Greek Testament. Such claims sound pretty arrogant. As it is written is not, in this case, the form of quotation, but is rather equivalent to saying, âTo use the language of Scripture.'. "Commentary on 1 Corinthians 2:9". Where does this verse place people who read the Bible, and then say, "But I think God will do something different."? To get over this difficulty some propose a different interpretation of the passage in the prophet. They do not have an eye that can see mercy as more precious than money. "Whatsoever things God prepared"-"These words do not refer to the unknown glories of heaven, as commonly supposed, but to the way of salvation." 1871-8. A Hebraism (cf. "Things" such as forgiveness of sins, reconciliation with God, redemption, etc...and how to live! 1 Corinthians 2:9 but as it is written, Things which eye saw not, and ear heard not, And {which} entered not into the heart of man, Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him. Jesus heard that the Jewish leaders had kicked this man out of the temple, which was a serious matter in that society. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? And if on earth the gospel confers such blessings on its friends, how much higher and purer shall be the joys which it shalt bestow in heaven! The TOTAL glory of God's act in Christ is still beyond human understanding!!! https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jfu/1-corinthians-2.html. Maimon. From Isaiah 64:4, freely rendered by Septuagint. () It sure looks as if they are claiming for themselves a quality or condition (infallibility, inspiration), which they deny for the Bible. "Mark Dunagan Commentaries on the Bible". Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye. (i) Man cannot so much as think of them, much less conceive them with his senses. The words are not to be limited to future blessings in heaven. This describes "Christ on the cross," that Isaiah, God's secret wisdom. Go to, but just as it is written, "THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO LOVE HIM. The Gnostics quoted the passage in favour of their method of esoteric teaching. When the eyes are good, the whole person gets the benefit of the light. This difficulty may be met either by a reference to the usage referred to in the note on the last verse of the preceding chapter, 1 Corinthians 1:31, the custom of the apostles to quote passages from the Old Testament without weaving them grammatically into their own discourses. None of these explanations would justify the use of that phrase, âit is written,â with which these words are introduced, and which in the apostolic writings is confined to quotations from the Old Testament scriptures. God tells Ezekiel that his people "have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear" (Ezekiel 12:2).The little picture below illustrates this.. 1 Seeing Yet Not Seeing. The body here means the person rather than just his body. The exceptive words, "O God, beside (i:e., except) thee," are not quoted directly, but virtually expressed in the exposition (1 Corinthians 2:10). But as it is written: “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.” But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. They are ripe for harvest." The quotation is from Isaiah 64:4. Literally the passage reads, âWhat no eye saw, and no ear heard, and no heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him â .' Well, it"s rulers put God to death. For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him. "entered not into the heart of man"-"no human mind conceived" (Fee p. 107) "Things beyond our imagining" (NEB). He there says that God has revealed these things to Christians by his Spirit. Where does this verse place those religious scholars that claim the Bible has been corrupted? ", "Prepared (literally, 'will do') for him that waiteth for him;", Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers, Hodge's Commentary on Romans, Ephesians and First Corintians, Commentary Critical and Explanatory - Unabridged, Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. Chrysostom also suggests that it may be a reference, not to a writing, but to historical facts, as in Matthew 2:23. "Commentary on 1 Corinthians 2:9". Paul says, "But God hath revealed them unto us." In Isa 64:4 it is "Prepared (literally, 'will do') for him that waiteth for Him"; here, "for them that love Him." But' [ de (Greek #1161), not so strong an adversative as the former "but," which contrasts the two main opposites. Eye hath not seen - This is the same as saying, that no one had ever fully perceived and understood the value and beauty of those things which God has prepared for his people. All the world had been strangers to this until God made a revelation to his people by his Spirit. "as it is written"-(Isaiah 64:4/65:17) "He does not employ the very words, but states the main thought, which emphasizes the inability of man to discover that which God alone can reveal." The meaning of this verse is plain, although there are several difficulties connected with it. - Youngs Literal Bible (64:3) And whereof from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen a God beside Thee, who worketh for him that waiteth for Him. "Commentary on 1 Corinthians 2:9". Or(374) wrote (on Matthew 27:9), “In nullo regulari libro hoc positum invenitur, nisi in Secretis Eliæ prophetæ”—a lost Apocryphum; Jerome found the words both in the Ascension of Isaiah and the Apocalypse of Elias, but denies Paul’s indebtedness to these sources; and Lt(375) makes out (see note, ad loc(376)) that these books were later than Paul. BibliographyNicol, W. Robertson, M.A., L.L.D. Or this verse may be connected with what follows: âWhat eye hath not seen â what (namely) God hath prepared for his people, he hath revealed to us by his Spirit.' If there are such manifestations of wisdom in the plan here; if Christians see so much of its beauty here on earth; and if their views so far surpass all that the world sees and enjoys, how much greater and purer will be the manifestations of wisdom and goodness in the world of glory. But if already revealed, assuredly it does not refer to that which is yet to come. The words cited do not appear, connectedly, in the O.T. Origen in his Commentary on John (Exegetika eis to kata Ioannen) (Fragments from Catenae, Fragm. Thus, however, the "but" of 1Co 2:10 is ignored. 31. Some of you may remember the second page of our Mission Statement booklet, The Spiritual Dynamic. In thought, as Hf(371) and Bt(372) point out, this passage corresponds to Isaiah 64 : in P. God does, as in Isaiah He is besought to do, things unlooked for by the world, to the confusion of its unbelief; in each case these things are done for fit persons—Isaiah’s “him that waiteth for Him,” etc., being translated into Paul’s “those that love Him”; ἐποίησεν is changed to ἡτοίμασεν, in conformity with προώρισεν (1 Corinthians 2:7). The gospel is the “hidden wisdom of God” (1 Cor 2:6). Even his … We have not seen the end of the story. I love the biblical definition of faith from Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the This latter "but" puts a slight contrast between the two subordinate clauses, "God hath prepared" from everlasting, but now "hath revealed the things to us."] For more discussion of faith see commentary on Hebrews 11:1-2. In that place it is designed clearly to describe the blessedness of those who were admitted to the divine favor; who had communion with God; and to whom God manifested himself as their friend. Compare Daniel 2:29, Sept. This is not the only place in which St. Paul would seem to thus refer to the Old Testament scriptures (see 1 Corinthians 1:19-20) when he is not basing any argument upon a particular sentence in the Scriptures, but merely availing himself of some thoughts or words in the Old Testament as an illustration of some truth which he is enforcing. Eye has not seen: Most people wrongly take the things which God has prepared for those who love Him to mean the things which are waiting for us in heaven. The thing to which the apostle here refers particularly, is the wisdom which was revealed in the gospel; but he also intends, doubtless, to include all the provisions of mercy and happiness which the gospel makes known to the people of God. Sota, fol. Eye hath not seen, &c.—Alford translates, "The things which eye saw not … the things which God prepared … to us God revealed through His Spirit." Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary. His neighbors would have shunned him out of fear of having the religious police target them. 1. ((b) T. Bab. sayings. The sentence is incomplete. 1. Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. Origen’s suggestion has been adopted by many expositors, but is really needless; this is only an extreme example of the Apostle’s freedom in adopting and combining O.T. ((a) Zohar in Exod. The Hebrew reads: "From of old men have not heard, not perceived with the ear, eye has not seen a God beside Thee who does (gloriously) for him who waits on Him." "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". Finding the new version too difficult to understand? "E.W. 2. Look, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord delivered you today into my hand in the cave, and someone urged me to kill you. The Septuagint expresses the same idea. 34. They are true of the present. BibliographyIce, Rhoderick D. "Commentary on 1 Corinthians 2:9". This is the version given in the Vulgate, and brings the passage into harmony with the apostle's quotation. Paul takes only the general idea from the Old-Testament passage. All the world had been strangers to this until God made a revelation to his people by his Spirit. to the Corinthians, St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians, Commentaire sur la prem. It has therefore been suggested (Origen) that they are from some apocryphal book, or some book which has been lost, as is supposed many have been. All the world had been strangers to this until God made a revelation to his people by his Spirit. It was precisely these "things" that are revealed in the gospel. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? It seems they are claiming that they can know God"s will without a clear revelation from God! For Isaiah spake to them who waited for Messiah's appearance as future; Paul, to them who love Him as having actually appeared (1Jo 4:19); compare 1Co 2:12, "the things that are freely given to us of God". The quotation is not verbatim, but an inspired exposition of the "wisdom" (1 Corinthians 2:6) from Isaiah 64:4 (cf. Probably many in the marketplace would also refuse to do business with such an outcast. There is a difference. Clement of Rome (ad Cor(373), xxxiv. Delta G f g, Vulgate, read, as the English version] God prepared, etc. No human eye had ever beheld these "things", no human ear had ever heard them (preached by any philosopher), and no human mind operating with mere human wisdom had ever conceived these "things". The world"s wisdom is seen as shallow from the perceptive, that it was God who had to enlighten man as to the facts about this life. Eye hath not seen - This is the same as saying, that no one had ever fully perceived and understood the value and beauty of those things which God has prepared for his people. 46. in Misn. How bankrupt is the world"s wisdom? Phrases. The first difficulty connected with this verse is a grammatical one, which does not appear in our version because of the freedom of the translation. 1 Corinthians 1:5-7).— τ. ἀγαπ. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". Cross References. Neither have entered into the heart of man - No man has conceived it; or understood it. eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: which could never have been seen to be read by the eye of man, nor the sound thereof ever heard by the ear of man, had not God been pleased to make a revelation of them; and though they are to be seen and read in the sacred writings, and to be heard either read or expounded, with the outward hearing of the ear; yet are neither to be seen nor heard intellectually, spiritually, and savingly, unless, God gives eyes to see, and ears to hear; the exterior senses of seeing and hearing are not sufficient to come at and discover the sense of them; flesh and blood, human nature cannot search them out, nor reveal them, no nor the internal senses, the intellectual capacity of men: neither have entered into the heart of man; this clause is not in the original text; but is a phrase often used by the Jews, for that which never came into a man's mind, was never thought of by him, or he ever had any conceptions, or the least notion and idea of; so the elders of the city, at the beheading of the heifer, are represented not only as saying, "our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it"; but also neither , "hath it entered into our hearts", that the sanhedrim hath shed blood (y); and elsewhere (z) it is said, this matter is like to a king, , "into whose heart it entered", to plant in his garden, &c. The things which God hath prepared for them that love him; in the original text it is, "for him that waiteth for him"; the sense is the same, for such as hope in the Lord and wait for him, are lovers of him; and the meaning is, that God has prepared and laid up in his own breast, in his counsels and covenant, in the types, shadows, and sacrifices of the old law, in the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament, such doctrines and mysteries of grace as were not so seen, heard, known, and understood by the Old Testament prophets and saints; and has reserved for his people under the Gospel dispensation, the times of the Messiah, a more clear discovery of them: so the Jews themselves own that these words belong to the world to come (a), which with them commonly signifies the days of the Messiah; though here they think fit to distinguish them, and interpret the phrase, "eye hath not seen", of the eye of the prophets: their words are these (b); "all prophesied not, but of the days of the Messiah; but as to the world to come, eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee. Teshuva, c. 8. sect. But [ alla (Greek #235)] - in strong contrast to "which none of the princes of this world knew." https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/dun/1-corinthians-2.html. They read Mark 16:16, and then say, "But I really think that in the end God won"t consider baptism to be an essential requirement for salvation". John 4:35, ESV: "Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’?Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest." BibliographyEllicott, Charles John. It is such wisdom as could not have been discovered without a revelation, according to what the prophet Isaiah says (Isa. In Isaiah 64:1-12 it is, "Prepared (literally, 'will do') for him that waiteth for him;" here, "for them that love Him." (9) As it is written.âWhere do the words which follow occur? Paul had said, he preached the hidden wisdom of God, which none of the princes of this world knew; he taught what no eye hath seen, nor ear heard, nor heart conceived. 8) cites the text briefly as a Christian saying, but reverts from Paul’s τ. ἀγαπῶσιν to the Isaianic τ. ὑπομένουσιν αὐτόν, manifestly identifying the O. and N.T. The things which God hath prepared - The things which God "has held in reserve" (Bloomfield); that is, what God has appointed in the gospel for his people. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/egt/1-corinthians-2.html. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/hdg/1-corinthians-2.html. Ép. New International Version 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. By connecting it with what follows, and by taking the word God in the vocative, the sense may be, âFrom eternity they have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, eye hath not seen, O God, without thee, (i.e. ", entered—literally, "come up into the heart." (1) The first is, that the passage in Isaiah has no such reference. Notice the text again. Now bring that understanding of the "bad eye" back to Matthew 6:23 and let it determine the meaning of the "good eye." The second difficulty relates to the passage quoted. & Hilch. "Commentary on 1 Corinthians 2:9". How do they know? (8) Another objection: but how could it be that those intelligent men could not perceive this wisdom? Some years ago this verse, by itself, was our theme verse for a semester at chapel at a school I attended. It seems they are claiming to be as close to God, as the Spirit is! Or, we may supply, as many do, the word ( ×××××¥ Í ×××) âwe speak what God hath prepared for those who love him.' See Isaiah 64:1, Isaiah 64:4-5, Isaiah 64:8. the things which God hath prepared for them that love him; What an eye hath not seen, nor an ear heard, and, all that God hath prepared for them that love Him, by some confusion of memory took the apocryphal saying for a canonical passage possibly from the prophecies, οἱ δὲ δίκαιοι πορεύσονται εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον κληρονομοῦντες ἐκεῖνα, Commentary on the First Ep. However, keep in mind that faith is NOT faith in faith, but is … BibliographyHodge, Charles. 1909-1922. The context makes it clear that this revelation is God’s Word (v. 13), which tells us what God has prepared for us. fol. We really cannot "get it" or see it. "Commentary on 1 Corinthians 2:9". For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. without a revelation) what he, (or, by change of person) what thou hast prepared for those that wait for thee.' 1. American King James Version But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him. And all the world"s wisdom over the ages, had never even conceived the ideas that are found in the gospel that Paul preached. See on Acts 7:23. 106), notes that Thomas, motivated by a desire for precision and proof after scrutiny (akribes kai exetasmenon), is not so much rejecting the evidence of the other apostles as he is eager to make sure that what they have seen is not a ghost (fantasma) in the sense of Mark 6:49-50 and Luke 24:37-38. ((z) Sepher Bahir in Zohar in Gen. fol. Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that the LORD had delivered thee to day into mine hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee: but mine eye spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth mine hand against my lord; for he is the LORD's anointed. 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