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 after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save... An account of the life of ... John Richardson - Page 250by John Richardson - 1832Full view - About this book
| Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 434 lehte
...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 disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world 1 For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world... | |
| Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1794 - 404 lehte
...and important fubject, I fhall referve for a Separate difcourfe. SERMON III. i COR. i. 20. 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? FROM the train of reafomng purfued in the preceding... | |
| A. M - 1797 - 358 lehte
...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 the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of H this world ? For after that, in the wisdom of God, the... | |
| John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 lehte
...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... | |
| 1813 - 996 lehte
...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 - 454 lehte
...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 the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world... | |
| 1804 - 476 lehte
...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 disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? 21 For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world... | |
| 1807 - 570 lehte
...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 disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? 21 For after that, in the wisdom of God, the... | |
| William Penn - 1807 - 394 lehte
...times, bitterly reflects on that wisdom, so much valued by Jews and Greeks : *' Where (says he) is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?"° And he gives a good reason for it, " that... | |
| Robert Coutts - 1808 - 460 lehte
...bring to nothing the under" standing of the prudent. Where," therefore, adds the apostle, " 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 after that, in the wisdom of God, the... | |
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