1 Corinthians 1:19

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For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

By doing this, God shows that actions speak louder than words. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215

Of these and the like, who devote their attention to empty words, the divine Scripture most excellently says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.". of this world, the philosophers of the Gentiles. "Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? ". And again, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent"

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Cornelius a Lapide

AD 1637

For it is written. This is from Isaiah 29:14, where, following the Hebrew, the verbs are transitive, but the sense is the same. Note that Paul refers to the whole circle of worldly wisdom what the Prophet said of the wisdom of the Jews alone, which was Pharisaic. For both are alike in this connection, and the meaning Isaiah , "I will make men unwilling to use worldly wisdom for their salvation, but only the Gospel and the Cross of Christ."

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will confound the false and mistaken wisdom of the great and wise philosophers, of the learned doctors or scribes, of the curious searchers of the secrets of nature. Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world, by the means he hath made use of to convert, and save the world, particularly by sending his only Son to die upon a cross? the preaching of which seems a folly only they who are called, believe Christ, though crucified, to be the power and wisdom of God. (Witham)

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Tertullian of Carthage

AD 220

And then, that we may known from whence this comes, he adds: "For it is written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.' ". -that God, no doubt, who in reference to this very dispensation of His threatened long before that He would "destroy the wisdom of the wise."

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