 | Richard Claridge - Quakers - 1836 - 346 pages
...God, he said, had passed by the wise and prudent after the flesh, and chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty. He concluded his preaching with a prayer, wherein he blessed God for what they... | |
 | Henry Howarth - Bible - 1837 - 228 pages
...agency of a stronger arm. He is sure that none but God could thus have " chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and the weak things...the things which are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are*."... | |
 | Theology - 1891 - 604 pages
...in this respect, immortal. The son of Jonas was elected; and since God uses " the foolish things of the world to confound the wise," and " the weak things of the world to confound the mighty," the election, as far he was concerned, was no doubt based on his gifts of receptivity,... | |
 | David James Burrell - Sermons, American - 1892 - 350 pages
...thrippence and ye are not an honest man." Thus it is written, God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. Our gospel has been tried in ten thousand times ten thousand... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Sermons - 1893 - 906 pages
...and men shall develop and aspire, do not you see that a new meaning will be given to the Gospel, and that God hath chosen the foolish things of the world...confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and the lose things of the world, and things which are despised,... | |
 | Joseph Thompson - 1893 - 300 pages
...general providence, no less than in religion, God has often appeared to choose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty." The doctor then enters into particulars, and concludes with a solemn appeal to... | |
 | William Charles Edmund Newbolt - Clergy - 1894 - 366 pages
...deficient in authority, as the ambassador of Jesus Christ, Who " hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and . . . the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty . . . that no flesh should glory in His presence." 1 n. " Through... | |
 | Richard Roberts - Sermons, English - 1894 - 344 pages
...the power may be of God and not of us," and that in His wisdom "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty" (1 Cor. i. 27). III. GOD as THE ACTIVE AGENT, the Prime Mover... | |
 | Arthur Charles Hervey, Charles Hole - Bible - 1895 - 264 pages
...Thou ! " Leaving a lesson, too, to be repeated again and again as the world rolls on in its course, that " God hath chosen the foolish things of the world...confound the wise ; and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty . . . that no flesh should glory in His presence." The frequently... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - Presbyterianism - 1897 - 406 pages
...men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but that God had chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty, and base things of the world, and things that were despised had God chosen; yea,... | |
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God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty... 
