Dmitriy Reznik wrote: DR>Could you tell me if CRISTON QEOU DUNAMIN KAI QEOU SOFIAN [1Cor 1:24] is to be translated as "[We preach] Messiah the power of God, and the wisdom of God" or "Messiah as the power of Cod etc."> I would read Paul's argument in the passage as follows: The salvation sought by both Jews and gentiles is a temporal salvation.