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1 Corinthians 1
1 corinthians.1.cor1Nothings
τὰ μὴ ὄντα
Whom did God choose to nullify ‘the things that are’?
The expression climaxes a descending sequence—the foolish, weak, lowborn, despised, and finally those counted as nothing.
Why this default
‘The things that are nothing’ preserves Paul’s deliberately severe paradox for people society treats as nonexistent, while the note prevents it from becoming an ontological claim.
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