Yet, Paul had some trouble announcing the Cross: for the Judeans, "that placed their concept of salvation in Christ’s deeds, not in the Cross", explained the Pontiff this morning, it "contradicts the very essence of God, who has always revealed Himself through prodigious signs", so the rejection of Him is due to "faithfulness to the God of the Fathers". For the Greeks, who opposed to that "their human wisdom, and we can see this argument also applies to this day and age", the Cross is "literally foolishness", so "an insult to common sense". Hence, on several occasions, Paul’s "bitter experience" of "the rejection of the Christian announcement, regarded as ‘foolish’, irrelevant, not even worthy of being taken into account, on the plane of rational logic". "Not living for ourselves but living in the faith in God, who loved us and gave Himself up for us", this is Benedict XVI’s exhortation. "We too he concluded must find strength precisely in the humbleness of love and in the wisdom of weakness", thus partaking "of God’s wisdom".
