up: he is their wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, for all of which God is the source. Paul recalls that on coming to Corinth from Athens, where the worldly-wise philosophers had rejected him, he preached the cross of Christ in weakness and trembling, not with the rhetorical methods of sophistic philosophers. Alternatively, he did not preach that salvation comes through embracing wisdom, religiously and philosophically conceived and limited to the spiritually elite. Nevertheless,