When Paul says that Christ is “the power of God and the wisdom of God” (1 Cor. 1:24), this is not a statement of identity between two persons or figures. Such an identification can be made only if the words “Christ … the wisdom of God” are artificially extracted from the context and read against a different background and teaching. For Paul, the location of wisdom is explicitly in the divine plan of revelation and salvation that climaxes in the gospel and centers on Christ. There is no hint of an