...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...

...take men and women of great talents to preach the gospel, 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." 8. Before the advent of a real missionary give an enthusiastic...

...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...the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are." It was not possible but...

...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...

...practices. But »!ie Apostle tells us, that the " wisdom of God hatti chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise; and the weak things...world, and things which are despised ; yea, and things wliich are not, to bring to nought things which are : that no flesh should glory in his presence."...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...