Lastly, God has shamed the noble by calling people who are low and despised in the world.
But Paul interrupts the parallelism that he started building in 1 Corinthians 1:27. Instead of using the words to shame,
he says that God chose things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are.
In this way, he compares salvation with God’s act of creation.
The gospel creates something from nothing. People who used to be nobodies
are now somebodies
in the eyes of God, while the world’s somebodies
remain under God’s wrath.
28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,