The Greeks, in like manner, “could not believe that proclaiming supreme happiness through a man that was crucified at Judea as a malefactor could ever comport with reason and common sense; for both the matter and manner of the preaching were opposite to every notion they had formed of what was dignified and philosophic .... Thus Christ crucified was to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness.” (Clarkes New Testament Commentary 2: 195.)