1 Corinthians 1:21
Douay-Rheims
For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe.
Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
Since, therefore, human wisdom has no existence (Socrates says in the writings of Plato), let us follow that which is divine, and let us give thanks to God, who has revealed and delivered it to us; and let us congratulate ourselves, that through the divine bounty we possess the truth and wisdom, which, though sought by so many intellects through so many ages, philosophy
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A.D. 317 · on 1Cor 1:21
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.