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First Corinthians: A Shorter Exegetical and Pastoral Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Anthony Thiselton’s lengthy New International Greek Testament Commentary volume The First Epistle to the Corinthians has become a standard work on 1 Corinthians. In this “shorter” commentary, Thiselton draws on his excellent exegesis from that volume but combines it afresh with keen practical and pastoral application for readers at all levels. Thiselton delves deeply into the context and text of...

Such Christians, Paul insists, need to hear afresh the effective reality of the cross as a reversal of all “natural” human values. For what the world naturally perceives as sheer folly is in fact divine power and divine wisdom. For God’s so-called “foolishness” is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s supposed weakness is stronger than human strength (v. 25). This act of “reversal” exposes the limitations of human perceptions and the fallibility of human knowledge. Two “worlds” confront each other at
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