"Let us, therefore, turn the word upon ourselves, and let everyone individually take to himself what he hears, not asking what message St. Paul’s teaching has for the world, but what is our own personal relationship to this heavenly wisdom. For if it were indeed the most pitiable of all things if what was to the Jews a stumbling block, to the Greeks foolishness, to St. Paul a power of God unto salvation — if this had become to anyone but an empty sound on the Apostle’s lips, and a noisy speech in his mouth, to the effect that this heavenly wisdom is to the Jews a stumbling-block and to the Greeks foolishness! It would be as pitiable, would it not, as if a man knew about that “mystery of godliness” of which St. Paul speaks in another place, saying that “God was manifest in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached among the nations, believed on throughout the world, but did not know whether he himself had believed it."
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