 | David Tappan - Bible - 1807 - 374 pages
...wisdom St. Paul refers, when in one of his epistles he contemptuously demands, " Where is the wise ? Where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" In • Matt, xxiii. 35' Luke an, 49' the same paragraph he declares that with all... | |
 | Robert Coutts - Sermons - 1808 - 460 pages
...and will bring to nothing the under" standing of the prudent. Where," therefore, adds the apostle, " Where is the wise ? Where is " the scribe ? Where...this world ? " Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this " world ? For after that, in the wisdom of God, the " world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1808 - 414 pages
...and again I say, Rejoice. SERMON II. On the Christian doctrine of Redemption, p. 2 5. 1 COR. i. 20. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe ? where is...disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the z&ix~ dom of this world? SERMON III. The same subject continued, and the same text, p. 5 1 . SERMON... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - Bible - 1808 - 656 pages
...wisdom of those that are wise, and will bring to nothing the knowledge of those 20 that are knowing." Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not 21 God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that, through the wisdom of God, the world... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1809 - 612 pages
...truth ! But " where," asks the apostle, "is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputcr of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" and hath he not demonstrated , how despicable are genius, and acuteness, and almost intuition, •when... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 544 pages
...Epistle, is peculiarly strong and animated; " It is written^ I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent....of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?'" Thus we may ask in reference to all who will not learn in God's appointed way, What... | |
 | John Bevans - Religious education of children - 1810 - 134 pages
...will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the...of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? 26. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the fles-h,... | |
 | Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - World history - 1810 - 588 pages
...I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the priident. Where is the wise ? Where is the scribe ? Where is...this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world f ? .Doubtless, since it could not bring men out of their ignorance. But the reason St.... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved ; lut he that believeth not shall be damned. q 1 Cor. i. 20. Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is...this world ? hath . not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? Ver. 21. For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it... | |
 | Benjamin Seth Youngs - Second Advent - 1810 - 672 pages
...they translated the scriptures into the ' popular languages." But what then ? where is the iCw. i. scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world i hath he not determined that the wisdom of their wise men shall perish '. 31. " They... | |
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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. 
