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One of the most exciting of Paul’s letters, 1 Corinthians offers a vantage point from which modern readers can reflect on diverseness in Christian Churches today. In First Corinthians, Raymond Collins explores that vantage point as well as the challenge Paul posed to the people of his time—and continues to pose in ours—to allow the gospel message to engage them in their daily lives. Paul...

Divine wisdom is “hidden in mystery” (“in the form of a mystery”; BDF 220:2). This is not mysterious wisdom with the connotations that “mystery” has in the mystery religions of the Hellenistic era. Paul resolutely avoids the use of the various adjectives derived from the myster- root. His view of wisdom is consistent with his Jewish and biblical tradition. Its object is ultimate, eschatological reality. The idea of that which is hidden is important in the Jewish mystical tradition. That which is
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