“If our Scriptures had persuaded people to believe because they had been written with rhetorical art or philosophical skill, there is no doubt that our faith would be said to depend on the art of words and on human wisdom rather than on the power of God.”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — ON FIRST PRINCIPLES 4.1.7
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4And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
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2For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
3And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.
— 1 Corinthians 2:4 —
5That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
6Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: