 | Joseph Priestley - 1804 - 530 דפים
...it, it appears to be such as God himself gives his sanction to. As we read, Isaiah xxix. 14, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." This is fully exemplified in the present state of things ; for what has been effected by your philosophers... | |
 | Samuel Chapman Loveland - 1818 - 250 דפים
...religion they would be governed by philosophy, they would do well to remember the Lord has said, / will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. It is evident revelation is of but little use, unless it teach us something we could not otherwise... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 דפים
...we read, what the investigation of this subject has impressed on us with double force, that God will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent ; that the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and that, when men change the truth of God into a... | |
 | 1819 - 488 דפים
...which some professing, have erred concerning the faith '. Be not wise in your own conceits'. For it is written, 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... | |
 | Hannah More - 1819 - 334 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 pru" dent," yet there is no promise that ignorance or folly shall be erected on the ruins of wisdom... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 486 דפים
...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 no.thing the understanding of the prudent."* * 1 Cor. ii. 4., and i. 19. SERMON XL JEREMIAH xviii. Part of llth Verse. THUS SAITH THE LORD ; BEHOLD,... | |
 | 1824 - 542 דפים
...not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect." He says, " It is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and...bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. The Jews," he continues, " require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom, but we" (not addressing... | |
 | George Campbell - 1824 - 396 דפים
...his country, by disguising his tongue, if it had been in his power. Matth. xxvi. 73. f Rom. iv. 17. the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. With such an almighty assistant, and nothiajj less will account for it, they might well be superior... | |
 | A. Norman - 1825 - 348 דפים
...mind confined to the " profanum vulgus." Spiritual things must be spiritually understood. " For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and...bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent." Hence, in reading the Scriptures, appears the necessity of prayer for spiritual understanding." §... | |
 | 1830 - 398 דפים
...things of the Spirit, which the natural man receiveth not, for it is foolishness unto him. But it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and...bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. God is wiser than man. He communicates the knowledge of his truths, not in the enticing words of man's... | |
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I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 
