| Edward Burton - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 318
...perseveringly, but so fruitlessly, to destroy. So true it is that God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise; and the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty. CHAPTER II. FIRST PERSECUTION OF THE CHRISTIANS — CONVERSION... | |
| Daniel Conner Lathbury - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 228
...looked back to something of the same kind when he wrote that " God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise ; and the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, yea, and things which are not,... | |
| 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 664
...wishes, they should seem to fight against God, who, we are reminded, chooses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world, the things that are mighty, he is recommended as a fit person to preach, and forthwith he becomes a... | |
| Arthur Stapylton Barnes - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...given to any that were not worthy to receive it (see Plate). How true it has proved to be that " God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty ".1 The great ones who condemned them have long since passed into... | |
| Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1918 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...God to those who were being saved. And for this reason : that God had chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which were mighty. Jesus Christ was thus made by God to be for us a manifestation... | |
| Ralph Shirley - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 198
...The saying is as true as it was in the times of Jesus Christ, that God To face p. 146 ANNA KINGSFORD has " chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty." If there is one word in our language more misunderstood than... | |
| Oliver Sylvain Baliol Brett Esher (Viscount) - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 266
...world ? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world ? But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty. God hath made us able ministers of the New Testament ; not of... | |
| Miguel de Unamuno - 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...Himself. And He is the God of the humble, for in the words of the Apostle, God chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty (i Cor. i. 27). And God is in each one of us in the measure in... | |
| Leighton Pullan - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 316
...and the divine Reason is deeper than man's reasoning. The fact that God chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things that were mighty, is no disparagement of learning and philosophy. It really gives... | |
| Henry Dwight Sedgwick - 1923 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...for Christ's sake, and to wish for the world's derision, for "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath... | |
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