the debater of this age? [no subtle distinction is to be made between those three] Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?… It pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save.… For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men, vv. 20–21, 25)—is reduced to mere rhetoric, a punning on words. Paul’s move from a reference to the subjective appraisal of the action of God in the cross in v. 18, to wisdom and folly’s exchange of roles, signaled