...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....

...their consequences, frequently afforded the most striking proofs of both. God manifested in thejlesh, was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness. It contradicted every prepossession which their confined ideas of religion and philosophy led them to...

...story to the notions and principles of mankind. This was no pleasant fable: a crucified God and Savior was to the Jews 'a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness. It was not the agreeableness of their doctrines to the dispositions of men ; for nothing is more contrary...

...to the notions and principles of mankind. This was no plrasant fable : a crucified God and Saviour was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness. It was not the agreeableness of their doctrines to the dispositions of men ; for nothing is more contrary...

...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...

...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...

...their consequences, frequently afforded the most striking proofs of both. God manifested in the Jlesh, was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness. It contradicted every prepossession which their confined ideas of religion and philosophy led them to...

...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."...

...their consequences, frequently afforded the most striking proofs of both. God manifested in the fash, was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness. It contradicted every prepossession which their conlined ideas of religion and philosophy led them to...

...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...