But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
Are not), "to bring to nothing things which are "(that is, which really are).
But how remote is our (Catholic) verity from the artifices of this heretic, when it dreads to arouse the anger of God, and firmly believes that He produced all things out of nothing, and promises to us a restoration from the grave of the same flesh (that died) and holds without a blush that Christ was born of the virgin's womb! At this, philosophers, and heretics, and the very heathen, laugh and jeer. For "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise".
The foolish things also of the world hath God chosen to confound the things which are wise.".
But, Marcion, consider well this Scripture, if indeed you have not erased it: "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise.".
And again, "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise? ".
Sufficient to meet each point is the divine declaration which has fore-run: "The foolish things of the world hath God elected to confound its wisdom; ".
For the weak things of the world have been chosen by God to confound the strong, and the foolish things of the world to confound its wisdom.
