 | Joseph Priestley - 1804 - 692 דפים
...receive it, it appears to be fuch as God himfelf gives his fanction to. As we read ff. xxix, 14. 2 will destroy the wisdom of the -wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. This is fully exemplified in the prefent date of things. For what has been effected by your philofophers... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - 1813 - 626 דפים
...to put in his hands. Then now let him look to the words of the Apostle. 1 Cor. i. 19.—" For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and...bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. The world by wisdom knoweth not God." He hath followed the wisdom of the world; thou hast rejected... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 דפים
...spoken:" "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for with God all things are possible :" " 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... | |
 | American Baptist Foreign Mission Society - 1814 - 500 דפים
...astonished at the goodness and mercy which the Lord is manifesting to us at this place. But God will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. He hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and the weak things of the world... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - 1815 - 416 דפים
...education ; in spiritual things all are equally blind, until enlightened by Jehovah the Spirit. For it is written — " I will destroy the wisdom* of the wise,...bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise man ? Where is the scribe ? Where isthe disputer of this world? Hath not God made... | |
 | Hannah More - 1815 - 380 דפים
...of the Cross, God accomplished a promise of long standing, and frequent repetition, that he would " destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent," yet there is no promise that^ignorance or folly shall be erected on the ruins of wisdom ; the promise... | |
 | 1815 - 608 דפים
...foolishness to them that are perishing; but to us who are saved it is the power of God. 19. ¥0t it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the sagacity of the prudent. 20. Where is the wise? where is the learned scribe? where is the disputer... | |
 | William Russel - 1816 - 122 דפים
...and pride — while it pleased God, by the selection and enlightening of a few illiterate men, to *' destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." Such were the despised apostles of a crucified Redeemer 1 — It is true that the great apostle, of... | |
 | William Dell - 1816 - 608 דפים
...great philosophers, and subtle disputants, as Paul affirms, 1 Cor. i. 19. that God hath said, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. God is so far from making use of human wisdom and prudence in the gospel of his Son, that he quite... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1817 - 474 דפים
...Spirit, and of power, to save them that believe; and, by what was called the foolishness of the cross, to destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent*/' * i Cor. ii. 4. and i- 19. SERMON XL JEREMIAH xviii. Part of nth Verse. THUS SA1TH THE LORD; BEHOLD,... | |
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I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 
