Anf-01 ix.ii.ix Pg 18
1 Cor. ii. 15.
And this, “The animal man receiveth not the things of the Spirit,” they affirm to have been spoken concerning the Demiurge, who, as being animal, knew neither his mother who was spiritual, nor her seed, nor the Æons in the Pleroma. And that the Saviour received first-fruits of those whom He was to save, Paul declared when he said, “And if the first-fruits be holy, the lump is also holy,”2765 2765
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 2
1 Cor. ii. 15. [The argument of this chapter hinges on Ps. xxv. 14, and expounds a difficult text of St. Paul. A man who has the mind of God’s Spirit is the only judge of spiritual things. Worldly men are incompetent critics of Scripture and of Christian exposition.
For he judges the Gentiles, “who serve the creature more than the Creator,”4254 4254
Anf-01 ix.vi.xxxiv Pg 103
1 Cor. ii. 15.
he neither blasphemes his Father, nor sets aside His dispensations, nor inveighs against the fathers, nor dishonours the prophets, by maintaining that they were [sent] from another God [than he worships], or again, that their prophecies were derived from different sources.4340 4340 “Ex alia et alia substantia fuisse prophetias.”
