1 Corinthians 2
1 Corinthians 2 is the second chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle and Sosthenes in Ephesus, composed between 52–55 CE. Text. The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 16 verses. Textual witnesses. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: Paul's preaching ministry in Corinth. recounts Paul's departure from Athens and his arrival in Corinth. The writer of the Acts of the Apostles states that Paul "testified to the Jews  that Jesus is the Christ, but when [the Jews] opposed him and blasphemed, [Paul] shook his garments and said to them, 'Your blood be upon your own heads; I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles'." Lutheran theologian Harold Buls describes Corinth as "was much like the city of Athens. They admired philosophers and orators. They were always sitting around waiting to hear or tell the latest philosophy. Many of them were sophists, teachers of speech and philosophy who came to be disparaged for their oversubtle, self-serving reasoning. Many of them were skilled in devious  argumentation." In Paul recalls that he "did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom". He states that he spoke "in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling" and "my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom". Acts reports that Verse 2. Buls notes that "'For' is the explanatory 'you see' and explains verse 1". The rulers of this age. Paul refers twice to "the archons (rulers, princes) of this age" (, ). Dutch theologian Hugo Grotius suggests that the rulers of this age are the "politicians, who adhere to justice and understand history." Grotius's  opinion reflects a time when the religious categories of late antiquity had been all but forgotten, before the rise of modern biblical and classical scholarship. In fact, Paul's reference is to spiritual powers (fallen or rebellious angels) who rule over the nations from on high, in the heavenly places. This idea of cosmic archons whom Christ has conquered and taken captive through his death and resurrection is a running theme in Paul's theology.