<p>2:10 <i>God revealed them to us through the Spirit- </i>Again the allusion is to Mt. 11:25, where the Lord praises the Father for 'hiding' His identity from the wise and prudent, and revealing it s.w. to &quot;babies&quot;. Those immature, largely illiterate disciples who 'got it' about Jesus are therefore us. Here Paul adds that the process through which that revelation happens is &quot;through the Spirit&quot;. This is not to say that one person is zapped by the Spirit and forced to believe, but another is not. There is indeed an element whereby faith is not simply a result of human steel will, but involves the gracious work of the Spirit on human minds. Yet as explained so far in Corinthians, it is our freewill choice to encounter the crucified Christ and believe in God's salvation through Him.</p><p><i>For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God</i>- The &quot;things&quot; in view are surely those concerning the Lord Jesus and His kingdom of :9. These are the deep things, and not any apparent profundity of human wisdom or debates. The 'Spirit' is personified as searching around all the depths of God's mysteries because we are going to now read that this Spirit has been given to us, so that <i>we </i>might know those deep things. This is all beautifully shown by a comparison of Is. 64:4 and 1 Cor. 2:9: &ldquo;Men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye seen, O God, besides you, what He has prepared for him that waits for him&rdquo;. Paul quotes this in 1 Cor. 2:9,10: &ldquo;It is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love Him. But God has revealed them unto <i>us</i> by His Spirit&rdquo;. The passage in Is. 64 says that no one except God can understand the things He has prepared for the believers. However 1 Cor. 2:10 says that those things have been revealed to <i>us</i>. Because His Spirit is given to us and becomes our spirit.</p>