| William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 530 pages
...true wisdom for a man to be esteemed a fool in the world. 1 Cor. 3. 18. " If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise."- This fear by thus conforming our greatest acts to the rale of wisdom, certainly is wisdom eminently;... | |
| William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1816 - 436 pages
...supernatural assistance of the Spirit himself that revealed them. And therefore if any man amongst us seemcth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wise, 1 Cor. iii. 18. that is, he that would be wise unto salvation, must look upon himself as a fool, as... | |
| Joseph Priestley - Theology - 1786 - 526 pages
...C. xv. p. 237. (P.) t Aia ran ev yfuju; «fw%ix»? oM^-^aa-i. L. i. C. ip 32. (P.) among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise." He seems to allude to their pretended spirituality and refinement, when he says, ver. 1, • 1 could... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 292 pages
...hath been his counsellor? Rom. xi. 33, 34. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. 1 Cor. iii. 18. . * For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 298 pages
...been his counsellor ? — Rom. xi. 33, 34<. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. — 1 Cor. iii. 18. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 290 pages
...hath been his counsellor?—Rom. xi. 33, St. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise—1 Cor. iii. 18. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 294 pages
...hath been his counsellor? Rom. xi. 33, 34. Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that lie may be wise. 1 Cor. iii. 18. For if a man thinketh himself to be something, when he is nothing,... | |
| George Burder - 1817 - 320 pages
...for, saith St. Paul, in the 18th verse of this chapter, — " If any man among you seemeth to be wiM in this world, let him become a fool that he may be wisej that is, if he seems to have a large stock of worldly wisdom, let him renounce it all as insufficient... | |
| Josiah Conder - 1818 - 320 pages
...Apostles, St. Paul, in his emphatic style, thus expresses himself: " If any man among " you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him " become a fool, that he may be wise." In this consisted the only danger of misinterpretation, the pride of wisdom, the want of simplicity... | |
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