| Donald Senior - Religion - 1991 - 420 pages
...the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 2lFor since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. ^For Jews demand signs... | |
| Religion - 1987 - 268 pages
...the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. 22 For Jews demand signs... | |
| F. F. Bruce - Religion - 1988 - 580 pages
...he had been entrusted. Athens afforded him ample confirmation of what he had already learned, that, "in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom" (1 Cor. 1:21). He visited the synagogue in Athens, therefore, and held discourse there with Jews and... | |
| Jean Calvin - Religion - 1989 - 188 pages
...perverted, we wickedly defraud God of his glory. We must, for this reason, come to Paul's statement: "Since in the wisdom of God the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of preaching to save those who believe" [1 Cor. 1:21]. This magnificent... | |
| Gerhard O. Forde - Religion - 1990 - 210 pages
...or the "gnosis" of the sage would be sufficient. However, a problem arises: Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this...of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. (1 Cor. 1:20-21) The... | |
| Louis Bouyer - Religion - 1989 - 322 pages
...destroy the wisdom of the wise and the cleverness of the clever I will thwart'.5 Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this...of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs... | |
| Charles B. Cousar - Religion - 1990 - 212 pages
...part of the divine strategy to expose the wisdom of this age. The next verse explains why. "For (yap) since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased through the foolishness of preaching to save those who are believing" (1:21). Several dimensions... | |
| Johan Christiaan Beker - Religion - 1990 - 174 pages
...in the death of Christ. But it is precisely in the cross of Christ that the world itself is judged: "for since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe" (1 Cor. 1:21). In that... | |
| Stephen Prickett, Robert Barnes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 168 pages
...personified concept. In I Corinthians l:17ff. he gives a highly paradoxical account of the wisdom tradition: Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?...of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe ... we preach Christ crucified,... | |
| J. Philip Wogaman - Religion - 1993 - 356 pages
...plainly bespeak a penetrating mind, still seems to disdain rational argumentation: Where is the wise man? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this...of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs... | |
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