Footnotes

1. 1 Corinthians 1:26 A confirmation taken of those things which came to pass at Corinth, where the Church especially consisted of the basest and common people, insomuch that the philosophers of Greece were driven to shame, when they saw that they could do nothing with their wisdom and eloquence, in comparison of the Apostles, whom notwithstanding they called idiots and unlearned. And herewithall doth he beat down their pride, for God did not prefer them before those noble and wise men because they should be proud, but that they might be constrained even whether they would or not, to rejoice in the Lord, by whose mercy, although they were, the most abject of all, they had obtained in Christ, both this wisdom, and all things necessary to salvation.
2. 1 Corinthians 1:26 What way the Lord hath taken in calling you.
3. 1 Corinthians 1:26 After that kind of wisdom which men make account of, as though there were none else: who because they are carnal, know not spiritual wisdom.
4. 1 Corinthians 1:28 Which in man’s judgment are almost nothing.
5. 1 Corinthians 1:28 To show that they are vain and unprofitable, and nothing worth, see Rom. 3:31.