 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.  The Guardian - Page 331859Full view - About this book
 | Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - World history - 1810 - 588 pages
...it not then with reason, that St. Paul cried out in that passage, Where it • Rom. i. 21, 32. BB a the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world * ? Did they so much as suspect it to be their duty openly to oppose so many blasphemies, and to suffer,... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1811 - 562 pages
...will destroy the wisdom of the " wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding *' of the prudent. Where is the wise ? Where is the " scribe ? Where...world ? For, after that, in the wisdom of God, " the world knew not God, it pleased God by the " foolishness of preaching to save them that " believe."*... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 528 pages
...I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the...of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?"1 Thus we may ask in reference to all who will . not learn in God's appointed way, What... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Sermons - 1811 - 302 pages
...Great and Little Namaquas, in the South of Africa, See the reports of the Moravian and Danish Miuioni. is the Scribe? Where is the disputer of this world?...not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For ye see your calling, brethren; how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many... | |
 | Henry Venn - Christian life - 1811 - 464 pages
...destroy the wisdom, of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where ifr the wise? Where is the Scribe? Where is the disputer...this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" 1 Cor. i. The absolute contrariety which scripture truth bears to what the wisest... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 514 pages
...view of this last Dispensation, that he breaks out into this rapturous and triumphant exclamation, Where is the Wise ? Where is the Scribe ? Where is the Disputer of this warld? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world * ? • • , : But further, Divine wisdom... | |
 | 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...not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many... | |
 | 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...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 would have opposed... | |
 | 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...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 evidence also our... | |
 | 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...not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For ye see your calling, brethren ; how that not many wise men after the flesh, " not many mighty, not... | |
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