 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...  The Eclectic Review - Page 3591816Full view - About this book
 | Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 pages
...which are saved, it is the POWER of God. But we preach Christ crucified, to 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 of God. From these passages, and many others, it is obvious, that... | |
 | 1849 - 748 pages
...adopt the spirit of his determination; "but we preach ChrUt crucified ; to 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 of God." I. First, then, we must not corrupt the gospel by the spirit... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 520 pages
...what sense the gospel is foolishness ; it is so called, because it appears so to a natural man. Again, We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and UNTO THE GREEKS FOOLISHNESS. You see in what sense the gospel is called foolishness ; it is because the doctrine of Jesus Christ... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1814 - 184 pages
...ing to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom : But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling...them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of GOD, and the wisdom of GOD. Because the foolishness of GOD is wiser than men ; and the... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1879 - 622 pages
...and mother, His brethren and His sisters, a wonder and a mystery, unto the Jews a stumbling-hlock, 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. (To be continued.) IS LIFE WORTH THE COST? THE question which... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1847 - 510 pages
...allusion is 1 Cor. i. 22, 23, — " 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 foolish111 l(~I " ness." Now, we humbly conceive that, if Dr. Watts had this passage in view when he... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 pages
...the whole by a part. " For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness : — But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling...block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; but unto them that are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God," 1 Cor. i. 18,... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - 1815 - 172 pages
...they were even cut off that trouble you."f And in the same holy love, he declared to the Corinthians, "We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness;"^; — exhorted the Romans, "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences... | |
 | 1815 - 882 pages
...were even cut off that trouble you."f And in the, same holy love, Ite declared to the Corinthians, "We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness :"}. — exhorted the Romans, "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark then which cause divisions and offences... | |
 | 1816 - 654 pages
...all their moral victories were obtained. And so entirely dissimilar was this method of iastruction to any which had ever been before adopted, that both....Greeks, Christ ihe power of God, and the wisdom of •' God." On the authority of St. Paul, then, we may affirm, that in the testimony borne by the Apostles... | |
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