 | Henry Hull - Quaker women - 1812 - 32 pages
...Cross of Christ of none effect ?" which is nevertheless the wisdom of God, that brings " to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise...is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world I" Is not this manifest, that " not many wise men after the flesh... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...supporters of paganism, and thus endeavoured to provoke them to a fair and honourable discussion. " Where is the wise ] Where is the scribe ? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world 7" 1 Cor. i. 30. * If Gibbon WCVe a fair and candid historian, he... | |
 | John Buckworth - 1812 - 340 pages
...and we should have fallen under the censure which attached to the wise men of ancient Corinth : *' Where is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" How much then does it become us to value our Bibles ! We should... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...This plainly follows : But that it is not so, the 8cripture testifies, 1 Cor. i. 2O, 26, 27, 28. ' Where is the wise ? Where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...be on the morrow. (d) Great men are not always wise, neither do the aged understand judgm'ent. (*) Where is the wise ? Where is the Scribe ? , Where is the disputer of this world ? Their (•w) Job n. is. Eccles. 7. 13. i Cor. 3.»0. (») Job 8. 9. (51)148.59.9.10, (») Isa 59,8.... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - 1812 - 648 pages
...Christian dispensation. For, " Where is " the wise ?" saith the Apostle, in reference to this subject : " Where is the Scribe ? " Where is the disputer of this world ? Hath " not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For ye see your calling, brethren ; how that not many wise men after... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1812 - 424 pages
...Christian dispensation. For, " Where is the wise ?" saith the Apostle, in reference to this subject : " Where is the Scribe ? Where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For ye see your calling', brethren ; how that not many wise men... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Bible - 1813 - 638 pages
...for with God all things are possible :" " I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise...Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wis-t dom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew... | |
 | Missions - 1826 - 638 pages
...him, I said I had no horns, and taking a New Testament from my pocket, I read to him the passage, " Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ?— hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" &c., and from this passage I preached to him the Gospel of Christ.... | |
 | John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pages
...written, * I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and 20 abolish the understanding of the prudent, t Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom 21 this world ? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God,... | |
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For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. 
