 | 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... | |
 | Michel de Montaigne - French essays - 1811 - 562 pages
...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 ? For, after that, in the wisdom of God, " the world knew not God, it pleased God by... | |
 | Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 528 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Venn - Christian life - 1811 - 464 pages
...wisdom, of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where ifr the wise? Where is the Scribe? Where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" 1 Cor. i. The absolute contrariety which scripture truth bears to what the wisest... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Sermons - 1811 - 302 pages
...Great and Little Namaquas, in the South of Africa, See the reports of the Moravian and Danish Miuioni. is the Scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For ye see your calling, brethren; how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - 1812 - 648 pages
...Christian dispensation. For, " Where is " the wise ?" saith the Apostle, in reference to this subject : " Where is the Scribe ? " Where is the disputer of this world ? Hath " not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For ye see your calling, brethren ; how that not many wise men after the flesh, " not... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 512 pages
...follows : But that it is not so, the 8cripture testifies, 1 Cor. i. 2O, 26, 27, 28. ' 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 ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1812 - 424 pages
...Christian dispensation. For, " Where is the wise ?" saith the Apostle, in reference to this subject : " Where is the Scribe ? Where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For ye see your calling', brethren ; how that not many wise men after the flesh, not... | |
 | John Buckworth - 1812 - 340 pages
...fallen under the censure which attached to the wise men of ancient Corinth : *' 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 ?" How much then does it become us to value our Bibles ! We should evidence also our... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...paganism, and thus endeavoured to provoke them to a fair and honourable discussion. " 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 7" 1 Cor. i. 30. * If Gibbon WCVe a fair and candid historian, he would have opposed... | |
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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. 
