| Dorothy Anne Thrupp - 1836 - 248 páginas
...wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent ?" " God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise ; and the weak things of the world, to confound the mighty, hath God chosen; that no flesh should glory in his presence." The wise are they,... | |
| Henry Howarth - 1837 - 228 páginas
...agency of a stronger arm. He is sure that none but God could thus have " 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, and things which are despised, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are*."... | |
| David James Burrell - 1892 - 350 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1893 - 906 páginas
...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,... | |
| Joseph Thompson - 1893 - 300 páginas
...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... | |
| William Charles Edmund Newbolt - 1894 - 366 páginas
...unfledged in equipment, or feeble in speech, or deficient in authority, as the ambassador of Jesus Christ, Who " hath chosen the foolish things of the world...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... | |
| Richard Roberts - 1894 - 344 páginas
...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... | |
| Arthur Charles Hervey, Charles Hole - 1895 - 264 páginas
...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... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1897 - 406 páginas
...men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but that God had chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty, and base things of the world, and things that were despised had God chosen; yea,... | |
| 1899 - 588 páginas
...and weakness. "Not many wise, not many mighty, but the foolish things of the world, hath God chosen to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the mighty." — In dependence and helplessness; unarmed against enemies; in need of sheltering... | |
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