 | Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 434 pages
...wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after...stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ, the power of God, and the wisdom of God.... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - 1783 - 468 pages
...fign, and the Greeks fought " after wifdom." That is, becaufe they had SERMON X, i COR. i. 22, 23, 24. THE JEWS REQUIRE A SIGN, AND THE GREEKS SEEK AFTER...WISDOM; BUT WE PREACH CHRIST CRUCIFIED, UNTO THE JEWS A STUMBLING-BLOCK, AND UNTO THE GREEKS FOOLISHNESS, BUT UNTO THEM WHICH ARE CALLED, BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS,... | |
 | A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...wisdom knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after...Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness; butuntothem which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of... | |
 | James Barr Walker - 1799 - 200 pages
...philosophers have been always in quest yet, it was Divine philosophy : an adapted means, and the only adequate means, to accomplish the necessary end. Said an apostle...stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God."... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...preaching to save them that believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom ; 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of Gocl, and the wisdom... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 pages
...and absurd. Concerning its first grand article, this is observed immediately after our text, " For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after...: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness." Nothing could more stumble and offend the former,... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...preaching to save them that believe. 22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom ; 23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; 24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom... | |
 | Timothy Kenrick - 1805 - 396 pages
...by such apparently inadequate means. This accounts for the language of the apostle in the text : " we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; but unto them that are called," (that is, to Christians, both Jews and Greeks) ': Christ, the power of... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...preaching of the Gospel, which the world calls Foolishness, to save them that believe. I. 22, 23, 24 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after...: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness ; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks,... | |
 | John Taylor - 1809 - 312 pages
...cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us that are saved it is the power of God. Ver. 23, We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness : but unto them which are called, Christ [crucified] the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Chap. ii. 2,... | |
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For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom... 
