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John Lightfoot’s Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica uses rabbinical literature to comment on the text of the New Testament, and to help modern readers understand the textual background from within the framework of Jewish literature. Lightfoot makes full use of Hebrew and Aramaic literature to provide thorough commentary on the New Testament. He uses Jewish sources not...

Σοφία τοῦ Θεοῦ, the wisdom of God, is not to be understood that wisdom which had God for its author, but that had God for its object: and is to be rendered wisdom about God. There was among the heathen σοφία τῆς φύσεως, wisdom about natural things, and σοφία τοῦ Θεοῦ, wisdom about God, that is, divinity. “But the world in its divinity could not by wisdom know God.” CHAP. 2o VER. 6: Σοφίαν δὲ οὐ τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου· Yet the wisdom not of this world.] The apostle mentions a fourfold
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