When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I did not come proclaiming the mystery of God to you in lofty words or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling. My speech and my proclamation were not with plausible words of wisdom, but with a demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God. (1Corinthians 2: 1-5)

Paul has been explicit that there are divisions within the gathering of believers in Corinth.

His opening chapter implies that one source of division relates to the nature of wisdom.

God's wisdom and human wisdom are not the same. The reality of God goes far beyond our wisdom.

The full reality of God is not within our capacity to know - not now, not within our current limitations.

It is possible for us to know Jesus, to know that Jesus is our redeemer, and that in the crucifixion we can perceive the spirit and power of God.

We come to know this much of reality when it is demonstrated - the Greek is apodeixis - made manifest, made alive, apprehended by all the senses.

Holy wisdom is experienced more than explained.

Above is Christ as Holy Wisdom in a mosaic from Hagia Sophia in Istanbul.