1 Corinthians 2:7 · World English Bible
1 Corinthians 2:7 Meaning But We Speak God’s Wisdom
But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,
What does 1 Corinthians 2:7 mean?
The wisdom named here is hidden on purpose, sealed inside a mystery, and this is the whole method of Scripture: the deepest knowing is coded so the surface mind passes over it. It was ordained before the world, meaning it belongs to the ground of consciousness that exists prior to the outer world of appearances, older than the personality and its history.
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The wisdom named here is hidden on purpose, sealed inside a mystery, and this is the whole method of Scripture: the deepest knowing is coded so the surface mind passes over it. It was ordained before the world, meaning it belongs to the ground of consciousness that exists prior to the outer world of appearances, older than the personality and its history. This wisdom aims at glory, the inner radiance a person comes into when the code opens. It is not information to be told plainly but a buried understanding that reveals itself only to the awareness ready to receive it. The concealment is not to withhold; it is how such wisdom is kept until one can bear it.
Mystery: the sealed inner knowing coded beneath the surface of the words, hidden so the outer mind passes over it. Before the world: the ground of consciousness prior to the outer world of appearances, older than personality and time.
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Live 1 Corinthians 2:7 today
- Let one thing you are coming to understand stay unexplained today. Don't look it up, don't write a summary, just let it keep working quietly in you.
- When someone tells you something fragile, hold it. Not sharing it is a kind of respect, and some things only survive while they are still covered.
- When you are pushed for a quick answer you don't really have, say you need to sit with it. The pressure to produce something now is almost never about the truth.
What is forming in me that I would damage by explaining it too soon?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
Teachers hand students a question with no answer the thinking mind can reach. The hiddenness is the method, because what cannot be explained has to be lived into.
Taoism · Tao Te Ching
The way that can be stated is not the way. Words point and then step aside, and the real thing stays out of reach of anyone who only wants it described.
Judaism · Kabbalah
The written text is treated as a garment with layers beneath it, and the deepest layer was held back for students ready to carry it. Concealment there is care, not refusal.
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