 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. S6 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? \\here is the disputer 'of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? • • PARAPHRASE. i .» . I7,ror Chri|| sent me not to baptize, but to preach the... | |
 | Eleazar Lord - Blacks - 1813 - 318 pages
...and sublime intellects were occupied in the investigation of truth! But "where," asks the Apostle, "is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer...righteousness, and godliness?" The Apostle plainly tells us, that it was "in the wisdom of God," for his own wise purposes, that "the world by wisdom knew not God."... | |
 | Eleazar Lord - Blacks - 1813 - 312 pages
...and sublime intellects were occupied in the investigation of truth! But "where," asks the Apostle, "is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer...world?"; and hath he not demonstrated how despicable arc genius, and acutencss, and almost intuition, when compared with "soberness, righteousness, and... | |
 | John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pages
...written, * I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and 20 abolish the understanding of the prudent, t Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer...this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom 21 this world ? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God,... | |
 | Missions - 1826 - 638 pages
...said I had no horns, and taking a New Testament from my pocket, I read to him the passage, " Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer...this world ?— hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" &c., and from this passage I preached to him the Gospel of Christ. I preached in the... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Bible - 1813 - 638 pages
...I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and 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 wis-t dom of this world ? For after that in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God, it... | |
 | Alexander M'Leod - Presbyterian Church - 1813 - 166 pages
...religion (n), and of their ehildren (x). (9) 1 Cor. 1. 20. Where is the wise ? where is the seribe ? where is the disputer of this world > hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? (r) John 4. 22. Ye worship ye know not what : we know what we worship : for salvation... | |
 | 1831 - 492 pages
...contentedly viewed organic matter as having been made by matter less allied to sentiency than itself! " Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer...this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?'* A child who makes simple, teachable, unassuming inquiry, is often'wiser than the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 pages
...manifestly appear to be of God alone ; that nothing that is carnal may glory in His presence. Where, then, is the wise? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? Nowhere. Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? Covet, then, the best gifts of the... | |
 | Robert Hall - Baptists - 1814 - 312 pages
...ourselves justified on this occasion in adopting the triumphant boast of the great apostle : Where is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the disputer of thi» world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? For after that, in the wisdom of... | |
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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... 
