 | Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 434 pages
...with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...nature, and its origin, its progress nothing could controul. '.' For" says StPaul, "the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness : but unto us, which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1805 - 632 pages
...thrown; and then crying out in a noble exultation over alUhe baffled schemes. 18 For the preaching ot the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 ^f For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding... | |
 | George Buist - 1809 - 422 pages
...glory of God, and securing the happiness of man. 1 COR. CHAP. I, VER. 18. u For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God." THE doctrine of the cross was to the Jews a stumbling block, and to theGreeks foolishness; but... | |
 | Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - 1810 - 588 pages
...and human reasoning, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness : but unto us, which are saved, it is the power df God *. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding... | |
 | George Pretyman - 1811 - 614 pages
...observations will apply to the passages, "Baptism doth now save us (i)-" " we are saved by hope (k) j" " unto us which are saved, it is the power of God (I);" " who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling (m)." The persons here spoken of, were not... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 pages
...with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the POWER of God. But we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 pages
...we are delivered from the wrath to come. 1 Thes. i. 10. 76. 1 Cor. i. 18, For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. vii. 16, What knowest thou, О Wife, whether thou shall save thy husband? or how knowest thou,... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 628 pages
...observations will apply to the passages, " Baptism doth now save us (i);" " we are saved by hope (k) ;" " unto us which are saved, it is the power 'of God (I) ;" " who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling (m)" The persons here spoken of, were not... | |
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The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God," I Cor. i. 18: and in addressing his Ephesian converts, he makes particular mention of the " exceeding greatness" of the "power 
