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This new translation of First Corinthians includes an introduction and extensive commentary that has been composed to explain the religious meaning of this Pauline epistle. Joseph Fitzmyer discusses all the usual introductory problems associated with the epistle, including issues of its authorship, time of composition, and purpose, and he also presents a complete outline. The author analyzes the...

of this age who do not know (v. 8). Parallels in Jewish sapiential literature similarly extol wisdom: Wis 7:21–22, 25, “Whatever is hidden and whatever is manifest I have learned, for wisdom, the fashioner of all things, has taught me. There is in her a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear, unstained.… She is the breath of God’s power.” Similarly, 1QHa 9(old 1):21: “These things I know from your knowledge, because you opened my ears to wondrous mysteries, even
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