 | Richard Claridge - 1836 - 346 Seiten
...wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble: 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 which are mighty; and base things of the world, and things which are despised,... | |
 | James Sigston - 1836 - 354 Seiten
...glory in his presence." In the admirable process of his grace, " he 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." It would be wrong to close these reflections, without adverting... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1836 - 520 Seiten
...hearts, by means the most humble, and most likely to be contemned. " He chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise ; and the weak things of the world to confound those which are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things which are despised, did... | |
 | William John Deane - 1891 - 678 Seiten
...to better guidance. "The world by wisdom knew not God," and he " 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, and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath... | |
 | David James Burrell - 1892 - 350 Seiten
...thrippence and ye are not an honest man." Thus it is written, 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. Our gospel has been tried in ten thousand times ten thousand... | |
 | Joseph Thompson - 1893 - 300 Seiten
...general providence, no less than in religion, God has often appeared to choose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty." The doctor then enters into particulars, and concludes with a solemn appeal to his "dear brethren,"... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - 1893 - 906 Seiten
...see that a new meaning will be given to the Gospel, and 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 the lose things of the world, and things which are despised,... | |
 | Richard Roberts - 1894 - 344 Seiten
...the power may be of God and not of us," and that in His wisdom "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" (1 Cor. i. 27). III. GOD as THE ACTIVE AGENT, the Prime Mover... | |
 | William Charles Edmund Newbolt - 1894 - 366 Seiten
...deficient in authority, as the ambassador of Jesus Christ, Who " 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 . . . that no flesh should glory in His presence." 1 n. " Through... | |
 | Arthur Charles Hervey, Charles Hole - 1895 - 264 Seiten
...repeated again and again as the world rolls on in its course, 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 . . . that no flesh should glory in His presence." The frequently... | |
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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... 
