...lecturers ; who speak well indeed of virtue, but overlook the only foundation on which it can be erected. Where is the wise ? Where is the scribe ? Where is the disputer of this world ? What has their dry morality accomplished ? Where is the nation whose principles and practice have...

...show itself more reasonable, than when it ceaseth to reason about things that are above reason." " Where is the wise ? Where is the scribe ? Where is...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...

...! Thinking to throw light on this verse, by consulting parallel passages, he came to this text : " Where is the wise ? where is the scribe? where is...of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? " (1 Cor. i. 20 ;) and he read on to the end of the chapter, where it is written, "...

...destroy the 1 Cor. wisdom of the wise, and will cast away the understanding of ' ' 19 ' the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made the wisdom of this world foolishness ? Seeing the world by wisdom know not God ; in the wisdom of God,...

...Corinthians. Convinced of the fact, he exclaims, " Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? wherels 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 the Heavens and Earth, clothed in human flesh, and dying an ignominious death upon the Cross ! " Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is the disputer of this world ? Oh I thou stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Gentiles, Jesus Christ crucified ! truly...

...I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is...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...

...to the Corinthians, the apostle seems to speak of certain wise men with some degree of contempt : " Where is the wise ? where is the scribe ? where is...this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? " 1 Cor. i, 20. But perhaps he here refers, not to the Jewish D»D3n chachamim, but...

...I will destroy the wisdom of the.wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the...of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?" (1 Cor. i. 19, 20.) Upon which, I heard that Mr. Worldly-Prudence charged Evangelist...

...and elevating and purifying the heart of the Jewish people, the most despised portion of mankind. " Where is the wise, where is the scribe, where is the...this world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ?" • Art. II. 1. Memorial de Sainte H&lene. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations...