| 1804 - 438 pages
...will 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...of 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... | |
| Joseph Young - Future punishment - 1804 - 276 pages
...eternity, and this passage would be, against the rulers of the darkness of this eternity. So 1 Cor. i. 20. Where is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the disputer (to aionos toto) of this aeon, and not of this eternity. 1 Tim. ii. 6. Charge them that are rich (en... | |
| 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... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...will 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...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... | |
| 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...this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?"° And he gives a good reason for it, " that no flesh should glory in his presence."... | |
| 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... | |
| Robert Coutts - Sermons - 1808 - 460 pages
...and will bring to nothing the under" standing of the prudent. Where," therefore, adds the apostle, " Where is the wise ? Where is " the scribe ? Where...world ? For after that, in the wisdom of God, the " world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased Godj " by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that... | |
| James Thomson (minister at Quarrelwood.) - 1808 - 592 pages
...his soul. This, though consummate folly in the estimation of the world, is truly the;wisdom of God. " For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by...of preaching to save them that believe." 1 Cor. i. 21. A just view of this wisdom, working for the manifestation of the divine love, made the apostle... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 520 pages
...written, I 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...this world ! Hath 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... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1803 - 572 pages
...•written, I 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...this world ! Hath 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... | |
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