 | Pierre Bayle - Biography - 1826 - 434 pages
...wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after...them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - Sermons, English - 1783 - 468 pages
...fign, and the Greeks fought " after wifdom." That is, becaufe they had SERMON X, i COR. i. 22, 23, 24. THE JEWS REQUIRE A SIGN, AND THE GREEKS SEEK AFTER...WISDOM; BUT WE PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED, UNTO THE JEWS A STUMBLING-BLOCK, AND UNTO THE GREEKS FOOLISHNESS, BUT UNTO THEM WHICH ARE CALLED, BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS,... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...wisdom knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after...Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; butuntothem which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of... | |
 | James Barr Walker - 1799 - 200 pages
...Coneluding paragraph of the apology of M. Minucius Felix in defenee of Christianity : AD 250. "To conelude : the sum of our boasting is, that we are got into possession...them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." The Jews, while they required a sign, diil not perceive that... | |
 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 366 pages
...prepared for them that love and fear thee, SERMON XLIII. 1 COR. i. 23. f/Te preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness....them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God; because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...preaching to save them that believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom ; 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of Gocl, and the wisdom... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...and absurd. Concerning its first grand article, this is observed immediately after our text, " For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after...: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness." Nothing could more stumble and offend the former,... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...preaching to save them that believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom ; 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - 1805 - 396 pages
...by such apparently inadequate means. This accounts for the language of the apostle in the text : " we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling...block, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them that are called," (that is, to Christians, both Jews and Greeks) ': Christ, the power of God, and the... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1806 - 460 pages
...and the Greeks seek after wisdom. Bat we preach Chr.st crucified, unto the Jews, a stumbling-block ; and unto the Greeks, foolishness : but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God," 1 Cor. i. 18.. .24. The virtue flowed from the divine appointment,... | |
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For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom... 
