1Cor 2:7 | Family | STEP | We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery ; in speaking the wisdom of God we proclaim a mystery. The word mystery is used here, as often elsewhere in the New Testament, to denote something beyond the power of human wisdom to discover. Even the hidden wisdom ; that which had long been to a great extent unknown, but was now revealed in the gospel. Ordained before the world ; purposed from eternity to reveal. Unto our glory ; that it might raise us who receive it to glory. The apostle refers both to the spiritual glory which the gospel bestows upon men here, and the eternal heavenly glory in which it ends, the former being an earnest and pledge of the latter.

1 Corinthians 2:7

We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery; in speaking the wisdom of God we proclaim a mystery. The word mystery is used here, as often elsewhere in the New Testament, to denote something beyond the power of human wisdom to discover.

Even the hidden wisdom; that which had long been to a great extent unknown, but was now revealed in the gospel.

Ordained before the world; purposed from eternity to reveal.

Unto our glory; that it might raise us who receive it to glory. The apostle refers both to the spiritual glory which the gospel bestows upon men here, and the eternal heavenly glory in which it ends, the former being an earnest and pledge of the latter.