God's Folly
Taken from Paul for Everyone 1 Corinthians
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God’s Folly
1 Corinthians 1.18-25
On 15 March 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome, a mile or so away from where I am writing these words. His killers were a group of conservative Republicans who thought, with good reason, that Caesar was planning to make himself king of Rome – something the city had set its face against for hundreds of years.
Thousands of people who know little ancient history know about this incident because of Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. One of the most famous scenes in that play is when, after the murder, the leading conspirator, Marcus Brutus, steps forward to explain to the anxious crowd why it was necessary, for the good of the state, that Caesar should have been killed. He speaks in flat, straightforward, simple prose. His sentences plod along, clear enough in their way, but without life, energy or passion. The crowd are more or less convinced, but not excited...
Taken from Paul 1 Corinthians for Everyone – by Tom Wright