27 But Hashem in His bechirah (selection) chose the things of sichlut (foolishness), that He might bring the chachamim to bushah (shame); and Hashem in His bechirah (selection) chose the things of weakness that He might bring the strong to bushah (shame). 28 And those of the Olam Hazeh without mishpochah atzilah (noble birth) and those which are hanivzim* (the despised) Hashem chose, choosing the things that are not, in order to bring to naught the things that are. 29 His tachlis (purpose) is that no basar (fallen humanity sold under the power of slave master Chet Kadmon, Original Sin)* may boast before Hashem.

17 For Moshiach did not send me to give Moshiachʼs tevilah in the mikveh mayim, but to preach the Besuras HaGeulah, not by means of the lomdes (cleverness, erudition) of the rhetoric of Bnei Adam, lest the gevurah (power) of HaEtz HaKelalat Hashem (the Tree of the Curse of G-d)* of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach be buttel (cancelled out).

4 And my speech and my hachrazah (proclamation, kyrygma, preaching) to you of the Besuras HaGeulah of Hashem was not in persuasive words but in the demonstration of the Ruach Hakodesh and the gevurat Hashem (power of G-d),*

32 And if I receive the hagbah (lifting up) from ha’aretz, I will draw kol Bnei Adam to myself.*