使徒首先指出,十字架在灭亡的人看来是愚拙的。这里“那灭亡的人”(those who are perishing),就是正走在灭亡的路上的人。在这些人看来,十字架的道理是愚拙的。但是,十字架在那得救的人看来是神的大能。这里 “我们得救的人”(us who are being saved)就是已经得救但尚未完全得救,而且正走在完全得救的路上的基督徒。在这些人看来,十字架的道理是神的大能。在前面的经文,保罗已宣告这种内蕴在福音本身的能力:“这福音本是神的大能,要救一切相信的人”(罗1: 16)。
2. Steve Bruce, God Is Dead (Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002), 240-241.
3. Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2007), 21.
4. Donald G. Bloesch, The Christian Witness in a Secular Age (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg, 1968), 15.
5. Philip Graham Ryken, City on a Hill: Reclaiming the Biblical Pattern for the Church in the 21st Century (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2003), 16-20.
6. John Stott, The Radical Disciples: Some Neglected Aspects of Our Calling (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2010), 19-26. (中译本:《世界等待的门徒》,译者:胡伟利/叶淑和,校园书房出版社)
7. Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1987), 1-4; David E. Garland, 1 Corinthians (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2003), 4.