 | Stephen Charnock - 1699 - 226 sidor
...•'•'.''. ' • V ' " ' ! * '• • Camer. on Myro in Acts 15. 7. 4. Humility and self-emptiness. Christ chose 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. 1. 26, 27, that nothing should be attributed to their worth... | |
 | 1828
...that " not many mighty, not many noble, are Billed, but 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 that are mighty, and W things of the world, and things that are despised, hath... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 624 sidor
...originally calculated for the plainer part of mankind, by that God, who has Chostn the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things, which aremighty * ; and consequently, that a neglect and contempt of the common... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1804 - 388 sidor
...men, were singled out by our Lord. He chose, as the; apostle expresses it, " the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty -f- ; that his religion might not be established by the enticing... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 sidor
...after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. '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 vhioh are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things, which are despised... | |
 | William Giles - 1804 - 280 sidor
...sought for in the object on whom its blessings are conferred. ' 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 that are despised,... | |
 | James Hare - 1809 - 412 sidor
...appear to proceed from, and be established solely and entirely by, divine appointment, he writes, that 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; and the base things of the world, and things which are not, to... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 472 sidor
...supernatural gifts of the Spirit : Therefore (saith he again) God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise ; and the weak things of the World to confound the mighty *. And lest it should be said, that this was an affectation of despising advantages which they themselves... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 466 sidor
...supernatural gifts of the Spirit : Therefore (saith he again) God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise ; and the weak things of the World to confound the mighty *. And lest it should be said, that this was an affectation of despising advantages which they themselves... | |
 | Henry Tanner - 1811 - 352 sidor
...ages of his church. They are what the Apostle, in his strong language, calls the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise: and the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty. Perhaps no writings, next to the sacred oracles, have been so... | |
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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... 
