his proclamation is characterized by ‘weakness’ and ‘foolishness.’ The connection with the previous chapter is well expressed by Gordon Fee: Just as ‘in the cross and in choosing you God in effect eliminated human boasting [… so] I, for my part, when I came to you, evidenced the same reality. I was totally stripped of self-reliance.’55 The connection can also be gleaned from several lexical parallels that exist between 1 Cor. 1:18–31 and 2:1–5: λόγος and δύναμις θεοῦ are repeated from 1 Cor. 1:18
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