 | John Logan - 1807 - 236 pages
...and efficacy, and are changed into the same image from glory to glory ; that so the cross of Christ, which was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness, may become to us the wisdom and the power of God. VERSE 36. And they kept it c/ctfe, and told no man.... | |
 | Joseph Benson - 1817 - 630 pages
...Epistles. * 2 Thess. ii. 13, 14. 2. Now, to these, that same doctrine concerning Christ crucified, which was " to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness," is the Wisdom of God, and the Power of God. They esteem k an infinitely wise contrivance of God for... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1818 - 456 pages
...the history before us becomes, and that not darkly, a typical representation of the gospel of Christ, which was " to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness." Pride and self-sufficiency smile at the idea of a female prophet, a female judge, a female poet, a... | |
 | John Logan - 1821 - 392 pages
...and efficacy, and are changed into the same image from, glory to glory ; that so the cross of Christ, which was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness, may become to us the wisdom and the power of God. Verse 36. " And they kept it close, and told no man."... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 574 pages
...the more necessary to assert, and often inculcate, his divinity, in order to take away the reproach of the cross, which was ' to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness ;' ] Cor. i. 23. But there was far less need of this in respect to the Holy Ghost, who having nothing... | |
 | Philip Skelton - 1824 - 1090 pages
...the more necessary to assert, and often inculcate, his divinity, in order to take away the reproach of the cross, which was ' to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness ;' 1 Cor. i. 23. But there was far less need of this in respect to the Holy Ghost, who having nothing... | |
 | Temple Chevallier - 1827 - 454 pages
...dispensation, and especially in the institution of the Eucharist, the doctrine of Christ crucified, which was to the Jews a stumblingblock, and to the Greeks foolishness, was directly associated with his prophetic character, and with his triumphant victory over the power... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 336 pages
...before us becomes, and that Hot darkly, a typical representation of tb» Vol. VI, 4 gospel of Christ, which was " to the Jews a stumblingblock, and to the Greeks foolishness." Pride and self-sufficiency smile at the idea of a female prophet, a female judge, a female poet, a... | |
 | John Philip - 1828 - 478 pages
...What philosophy abandoned in despair has been effected by the preaching of the Cross. The doctrine which was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness, gradually undermined and overthrew the whole of that superstructure of superstition, fable, and priestcraft... | |
 | 1834 - 740 pages
...perishing heathen from all Christendom besides. And thus it is that the preaching: of the cross of Christ, which was to the Jews a stumblingblock, and to the Greeks foolishness, is still the wisdom of God, and the power of God, for the conversion of the world. 2. Christ, by his... | |
| |
But in the whole previous and subsequent context the apostle is speaking of that ' preaching of the cross ' which was ' to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness... 
