 | 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...genius, and acuteness, and almost intuition, •when com pared with "soberness, righteousness, and godliness ?" The apostle plainly tells us that it was... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...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 the disputer...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... | |
 | John Bevans - Religious education of children - 1810 - 134 pages
...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? 26. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the fles-h,... | |
 | Benjamin Seth Youngs - Second Advent - 1810 - 670 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... | |
 | Thomas Bradbury - Baptism - 1810 - 324 pages
...wavering that arises. 2. From pride and vanity. Men love to have something of their own. But where is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the disputer of this world? Has not God. made foolish the wisdom of this world? 1 Cor. i._20. There is no reputation got, by standing... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Sermons, English - 1810 - 538 pages
...against it, deride it, or revile it, only tread in the steps of ancient scribes and philosophers. But " where is the " scribe? where is the disputer of this world?" Hath not God at all times made foolish their boasted wisdom, if whenever it exalted itself against the knowledge... | |
 | Jacques Bénigne Bossuet - World history - 1810 - 588 pages
...it not then with reason, that St. Paul cried out in that passage, Where it • Rom. i. 21, 32. BB a the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world * ? Did they so much as suspect it to be their duty openly to oppose so many blasphemies, and to suffer,... | |
 | David Savile - Revelation - 1810 - 440 pages
...we are sanctified in the name of the Lord " Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. " Where," then, " is the wise ? where is " the scribe ? where is the disputer of this * Gal. jii. 13. t Rom. iv. 25. J Col. i. 19, 20. Only Through Christ. 275 " world ?" Let him come forth... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 528 pages
...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 Thus we may ask in reference to all who will . not learn in God's appointed way, What... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1811 - 562 pages
...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...this world ? " Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this " world ? For, after that, in the wisdom of God, " the world knew not God, it pleased God by... | |
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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... 
