<p>1:20 <em>Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? </em><i>Where is the disputer of this world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?</i><em>- </em>As noted on :19, this quotation is from a passage talking about the vanity of Jewish wisdom (Is. 33:18). And it was Jewish false teaching which was the source of the problems at Corinth. Truly Paul despised all worldly advantage and insisted upon the radical principles of the Lord- that true greatness is in humility, wealth is in poverty, worldly learning is the very opposite of Divine wisdom, etc. He mocks, even, such things when he writes to the Corinthians: &quot;Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age?&quot; (1 Cor. 1:20). Every one of these terms would have been true of Saul the Pharisee, Paul the powerful user of rhetoric, Paul of the razor sharp mind. And he knew his worldly advantage, and despised it.</p>