 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 954 pages
...[«K»I>OS¿.] A figure, when several clauses of a sentence are begun with the same word, or sound ; as, Where is the ¡wise ? Where is the scribe ? Where is the disputer of thit world ? ANAPLERO'TICK. adj. [ov«*X"i«ew.] That fills up any vacuity : used of applications which... | |
 | William Penn - Christian life - 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...God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?"° And he gives a good reason for it, " that no flesh should glory in his presence." ' Which is to say, God... | |
 | 1807 - 570 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...this world ? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? 21 For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased... | |
 | David Tappan - Bible - 1807 - 374 pages
...wisdom St. Paul refers, when in one of his epistles he contemptuously demands, " Where is the wise ? Where is the disputer of this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" In • Matt, xxiii. 35' Luke an, 49' the same paragraph he declares that with all... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 520 pages
...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...not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" And as it used to be in time past, so it is probable it will be in time to come, as it is there written,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1803 - 572 pages
...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...not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" And as it used to be in time past, so it is probable it will be in time to come, as it is there written,... | |
 | Robert Coutts - Sermons - 1808 - 460 pages
...will bring to nothing the under" standing of the prudent. Where," therefore, adds the apostle, " 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 by wisdom knew not God, it pleased... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1808 - 414 pages
...again I say, Rejoice. SERMON II. On the Christian doctrine of Redemption, p. 2 5. 1 COR. i. 20. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not God made foolish the z&ix~ dom of this world? SERMON III. The same subject continued, and the same text, p. 5 1 . SERMON... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - Bible - 1808 - 656 pages
...of those that are wise, and will bring to nothing the knowledge of those 20 that are knowing." Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? hath not 21 God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that, through the wisdom of God, the world... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...God. I. 1 9 / will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring &c. See Isaiah xxix. 14. I. 20 Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world f hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? Where then is the wise and learned Pharisee... | |
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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... 
