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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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."
