| John Flavel - 1689 - 412 pages
...conveyance of spiritual life into the souls of men, though it is despised and contemned in the world. " The preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness...unto us which are saved, it is the power of God," 1 Cor. 1 : 18 ; that is, the instrument by which the saving power of God communicates itself to the... | |
| Pierre Bayle - 1826 - 434 pages
...gospel : not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness,...but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding... | |
| Matthew Horbery - 1744 - 306 pages
...not use the word dird>\eia, (Destruction,) in the Philosophical Sense of A miihilation. No. LIX. 1 Cor. i. 18.— The preaching of the Cross is to them...perish, Foolishness: But unto us which are saved, ii is the Power of God. It is plain what is here meant by the word perish: Them that perish, is explain'd... | |
| A. M - 1797 - 358 pages
...contemptible in its nature, and its origin, its progress nothing could controul. v For" says St Paul, *' the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness : but unto us, which are saved, it is'the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing... | |
| 1802 - 374 pages
...gospel : "iot with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness;...but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. 1 9 For it is written, I u ill destroy the wisdom of the wise, and thren, by the name of our Lord)... | |
| John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...preaching, must be understood ironically ; or as speaking after the manner of unbelievers. He says, ver. 18, " The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness ; but unto us who are saved, it is the power of God." Both the matter, and the manner, of the primitive preachers... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...gospel : not with wisdom of •words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness...but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding... | |
| John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...the Gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching of the cross is, to them that perish, foolishness ; but unto usj which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written, I will destroy the" vain "wisdom of... | |
| 1805 - 298 pages
...not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth : so is EVERY ONE that is born of the Spirit. — The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness...but unto us which are saved it is the POWER of God. — Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God ; that we might... | |
| Timothy Kenrick - 1805 - 396 pages
...Gentiles to the profession of the Christian doctrine. Thus Paul says to the Corinthians, that " the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved," ie recovered from heathenism, " it is the power of God •" to the Ephesians, that " it is by grace... | |
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