 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...  The Friends' Library - Page 100publié par - 1840Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 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 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 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 THE DISPUTER OF THIS WORLD ? HATH NOT GOD MADE FOOLISH THE WISDOM OF THIS WORLD? THE fubject on which St. Paul is fpeaking in... | |
 | 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 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 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... | |
 | 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 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 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 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 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 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 pages
...those 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... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pages
...•written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise ; I 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 ?" And as it used to be in time past, so it is... | |
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