WHO was crucified and rose from the dead?
1Co_2:2. οὐ γὰρ ἔκρινά τι (or ἔκρινα τὶ) εἰδέναι κ.τ.λ.: “For I did not determine (judge it fit) to know anything (or, know something) among you, except (or, only) Jesus Christ, and Him crucified”.
This explains Paul’s unadorned and matter-of-fact delivery.—οὐ negatives ἔκρινα, not εἰδέναι (the rendering “I determined not to know” contravenes the order of words); nor is there any instance of οὐ coalescing with κρίνω as in οὔ φημι (nego) and the like—these interpretations miss the point:
had P. chosen another subject, he might have aimed at a higher style; he avoided the latter, “for” he did not entertain the former notion. cf. Gal_3:1, 1Th_4:14; 1Th_5:9 f., Act_13:38 f., relating to earlier preaching. For the use of ἔκρινα (statui, Bz[299]) as denoting a practical moral judgment or resolution, cf. 1Co_7:37, 2Co_2:1.
Ev[300] renders τὶ εἰδέναι (thus accented),
“to be a know-something” (aliquid scire)—to play the philosopher—according to the well-known Attic idiom of Plato’s Apol., § 6, and passim, where οἴεται τὶ εἰδέναι = δοκεῖ σοφὸς εἶναι; cf. 1Co_8:2, and the emphatic εἶναι τὶς (τὶ); also 1Co_3:7, Gal_2:6; Gal_6:3, Act_5:36.
This rendering accounts well for εἰδέναι, and gives additional point to the ὑπεροχὴ of 1Co_2:1 : P. brought with him to Cor[301]
none of the prestige of the professional teachers, who claimed to “know something”; Christ and the cross—this was all he knew.
For εἰ μὴ in the corrective sense “only,” demanded by this interpretation, see 1Co_7:17.—εἰδέναι is to possess knowledge, to be a master; γινώσκειν (1Co_1:21), to acquire knowledge, to be a learner. On ἐσταυρωμένον (pf. ptp[302], of pregnant fact), cf. notes to 1Co_1:17; 1Co_1:23.
To make it simple for you...
1Co 2:2 For while I was with you I resolved to know nothing except Jesus the Messiah, [Or Christ] and him crucified.
1Co 2:3 It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you.
1Co 2:4 My message and my preaching were not accompanied by clever, wise words, but by a display of the Spirit’s power,
1Co 2:5 so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on God’s power.
J.