Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel: 1 Corinthiers 1:22

1 Corinthiers 1:22

SV	Overmits de Joden een teken begeren, en de Grieken wijsheid zoeken;
Steph	επειδη και ιουδαιοι σημειον αιτουσιν και ελληνες σοφιαν ζητουσιν
Trans.	epeidē kai ioudaioi sēmeion aitousin kai ellēnes sophian zētousin

Algemeen

Zie ook: Griekenland, Grieks denken, Hebreeuws/Joods denken, Wijsheid
Mattheus 12:38, Mattheus 16:1, Johannes 4:48

Aantekeningen

Overmits de Joden een teken begeren, en de Grieken wijsheid zoeken;

Joden een teken … de Grieken wijsheid, In sommige groeperingen wil men onderscheid maken tussen het Hebreeuws en Grieks denken. Wat opvalt is dat Paulus dat hier aanhaalt met als conclusie dat het daar niet om gaat maar "Doch wij prediken Christus" (vs. 23).
Justin Dialogue 38 § 2 (p.170, l.2)
Clement of Alexandria Instructor 1 16 § 3 (p.100, l.1)
Clement Stromata 1.2, 1 21 § 3 (p.14, l.18): Philosophy came into existence, not on its own account, but for the advantages reaped by us from knowledge, we receiving a firm persuasion of true perception, through the knowledge of things comprehended by the mind. For I do not mention that the Stromata, forming a body of varied erudition, wish artfully to conceal the seeds of knowledge. As, then, he who is fond of hunting captures the game after seeking, tracking, scenting, hunting it down with dogs; so truth, when sought and got with toil, appears a delicious 1838 thing. Why, then, you will ask, did you think it fit that such an arrangement should be adopted in your memoranda? Because there is great danger in divulging the secret of the true philosophy to those, whose delight it is unsparingly to speak against everything, not justly; and who shout forth all kinds of names and words indecorously, deceiving themselves and beguiling those who adhere to them. “For the Hebrews seek signs,” as the apostle says, “and the Greeks seek after wisdom.”
Clement of Alexandria Stromata 1 88 § 4 (p.57, l.1)
Tertullian Against Marcion 5.5, 5 5 § 7 (p.677, l.15): “Because the Jews require signs,” who ought to have already made up their minds about God, “and the Greeks seek after wisdom,” 5408 who rely upon their own wisdom, and not upon God’s. If, however, it was a new god that was being preached, what sin had the Jews committed, in seeking after signs to believe; or the Greeks, when they hunted after a wisdom which they would prefer to accept? Thus the very retribution which overtook both Jews and Greeks proves that God is both a jealous God and a Judge, inasmuch as He infatuated the world’s wisdom by an angry 5409 and a judicial retribution. Since, then, the causes 5410 are in the hands of Him who gave us the Scriptures which we use, it follows that the apostle, when treating of the Creator, (as Him whom both Jew and Gentile as yet have) not known, means undoubtedly to teach us, that the God who is to become known (in Christ) is the Creator. The very “stumbling-block” which he declares Christ to be “to the Jews,” 5411 points unmistakeably 5412 to the Creator’s prophecy respecting Him, when by Isaiah He says: “Behold I lay in Sion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence.” 5413 This rock or stone is Christ. 5414 This stumbling-stone Marcion retains still.