Isaac of Nineveh

In his own words on 1 Corinthians

• 1 Corinthians 2:9

  When it says "which eye hath not seen, nor ear hath heard" and the rest, Scripture has declared to us that the good things to come are incomprehensible and have no similarity to any thing here.

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• 1 Corinthians 3:18

  Those who are tiny of body and those who, being wise in the world, abandon their knowledge and … become like babes of their own free will, will learn a wisdom which is not learned through study's labors.

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• 1 Corinthians 15:50

  By "incorruption" he means the knowledge of that other world, and by "corruption" and "flesh and blood" he designates the corrupting passions of both the soul and the body, the realm of whose motions is in the "mind of the flesh." … And by the "kingdom of God" he means the lofty, noetic theoria of the blessed intuitions of that eternal effulgence, into which the holy soul is permitted to enter only by means of the incorruptible intuitions that are exalted above corruption, flesh and blood.

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