 | Leonard Bacon - Church membership - 1833 - 228 pages
...a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him,"—and in the next verse we read, " Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit ?" What can it mean but this, that in undertaking to rebuke a wicked man or to hold any debate with... | |
 | Technology - 1834 - 476 pages
...through, and show the excoriated cinders behind! Nay, why should I not? 'Tis a good old maxim, to " answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." Let me try, then. (To Solomon Secundns.) Suppose I were addressing you thus— mark me, only suppose—... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 630 pages
...inexperienced lips, when they attempt as it were to play with sin. But the paradox in the following verse, 'Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit,' may encourage the wise reprover to rebuke the absurdity, and inconsistency of every false way. Such... | |
 | Christian life - 1841 - 596 pages
...inexperienced lips, when they attempt as it were to play with sin. But the paradox in the following verse, ' Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit,' may encourage the wise reprover to rebuke the absurdity, and inconsistency of every false way. Such... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1834 - 478 pages
...through, and show the excoriated cinders behind! Nay, why should I not? Tis a good old maxim, to " answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.'' Let me try, then. (To Solomon Secitndus.) Suppose I were addressing you thus — mark me, only suppose—"... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Bible - 1834 - 276 pages
...for the fool's back. 4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. 6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool, cutteth off the feet, and drinketh damage. 7 The... | |
 | Alexander Greaves - Children's stories - 1834 - 260 pages
...Snap-and-snarl, "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be like unto him :" and again, "Answer a fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his ovvn conceit." — In replying to thy scurrilous discourse, I shall endeavor to regulate myself by... | |
 | Robert Boyle - Bible - 1835 - 350 pages
...his own making,8) engaged me, in conformity to the wise man's counsel in such cases, to ' answer the fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit :'3 for my reproofs are addressed to those called wits, but as they are traducers or undervalues of... | |
 | Edward William Clarke - 1835 - 288 pages
...!"* search them " daily," that ye who " have tasted of the heavenly giff'f may be able to answer the fool according to his folly, " lest he be wise in his own conceit."J That they who are without may be " brought into the way of truth ;" that they may "speak"... | |
 | John BARCLAY (Pastor of the Berean Assembly at Edinburgh.) - 1836 - 164 pages
...doctrine of Jesus, from the circumstances of time and place, remembering the holy proverb, which saith, "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit :" and again, " Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be like unto him ;" without giving... | |
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Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. 
