Theme: Our foolish wisdom, God's wise folly

Exegetical note
Against the Corinthians' inclination toward esoteric knowledge and the spiritual self-satisfaction that it engendered, Paul here asserts that the Christian gospel of salvation is foolishness n comparison with worldly wisdom; that the wisdom that is so valued by Greeks is as ineffectual as the signs demanded by Jews; and that God purposely chose the foolish and the weak to shame the wise and the strong, so that the "boast" of all might be God and not themselves and their achievements.…