 | Joseph Priestley - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 692
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 638
...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... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...things all are equally blind, until enlightened by Jehovah the Spirit. 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 man ? Where is the scribe ? Where isthe disputer of this world? Hath not God made... | |
 | Hannah More - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...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... | |
 | William Dell - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...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... | |
 | William Russel - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 122
...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... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...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... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 1164
...in which 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... | |
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I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 
