 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
 | Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 434 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...of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world 1 For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1794 - 404 pages
...For my yoke is eafy, and my burthen is "light*."' • Matth. xi. 28 — 30. SERMON II. i 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? THE fubject on which St. Paul is fpeaking in this chapter, and which drew from him the... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1794 - 408 pages
...burthen is "light*.". t M * Matth. si. 28 — 30, SERMON II, i COR. i. 20. IS THE WISE ? WHERE IS TH1$ SCRIBE ? WHERE IS THE DISPUTER Of THIS WORLD ? HATH NOT GOD MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD ? THE fubject on which St. Paul is fpeaking in this chapter, a.nd which drew from him... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the pru. dent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe ? where is...this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of H this world ? For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 pages
...foolishness -, and the result was, that numbers, by means of such preaching, became wise unto salvation. Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? Defences of the Christian religion have often been conducted in such a manner as to produce an effect... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1802 - 512 pages
...heathen academies; a lesson by which they might become wise unto salvation. " For (continues the Apostle) after that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom,...foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe." 1 Cor. i. 21. " To the wise men among the heathens, the preaching of the Cross appeared, as, it does to the... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...same thing, and that there be no' 20 Where is the wise ? where i Of Paul's preaching. I. Corinthians. is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of thi world ? 2 1 For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased... | |
 | 1813 - 996 pages
...all our feelings upon it in one •expressive sentence : " How much this passage reminds our of, ' Where is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the disputer of this world, Ac. ! ' 1 Cor. L 20." Letter, p. 8. And this application, be it remembered, is made by a man who hag... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 pages
...of religion, had triumphed over all the boasted philosophy of the learned gentile world. He says, " Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is...world ? For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God" — after, in the wise ordering of Providence, human reason, on a full... | |
 | 1804 - 438 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? 21 For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased... | |
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