<p>1:22&nbsp;<i>Professing themselves to be wise, they became</i><i> fools</i>- &ldquo;Became&rdquo; implies that this is all talking about the people of God, who once were wise, but&nbsp;<i>became</i>&nbsp;fools. S.w. Mt. 5:13 about the salt &ldquo;which loses its taste&rdquo;, lit. &lsquo;becomes foolish&rsquo;. However it is God who makes worldly wise people foolish (1 Cor. 1:20 s.w.), just as in v. 21 it is God who darkens eyes. There&rsquo;s a downward spiral, in which God is active and the dynamic within it.</p>