(g) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
(g) Or, thought themselves.
Professing themselves to be wise - This was the common boast of the philosophers of antiquity. The very word by which they chose to be called, “p...
Mankind is in a ruinous plight: God's Anger, which is His righteousness reacting against wrong, rests upon the race. Romans 1:18 a . The Div...
Professing, &c . = saying that they were. Greek. phasko . See Acts 24:9 . became fools . Literally were fooled (i.e. by their perverted mind...
22. While they were thinking, etc. It is commonly inferred from this passage, that Paul alludes here to those philosophers, who assumed t...
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Professing themselves to be wise - This is most strikingly true of all the ancient philosophers,...
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Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Professing themselves to be ([ faskontes ( G5335 ) einai ( G1511 )] - 'boasti...
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They became fools. — They were made fools. It is not merely that they expose their real folly, but that folly is itself judicially inflicted by G...
Relying upon their own wisdom, they wandered further and further from true wisdom, falling into the contradiction of supposing that the eternal and i...
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Bringing the first and seventh verses together, we find the called apostle writing to the called saints. As for himself, Paul declared, first, that...
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Professing themselves to be wise ,.... The learned men among the Gentiles first called themselves σοφοι, "Sophi", wise men: and afterwards, to cover...
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Ver. 22. Professing themselves to be wise ] Aristotle, nature's chief secretary, writeth man...
“Because that when they knew God The writings of Plato, Xenophon, Plutarch, Cicero, and other philosophers, which still remain, together with the q...
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Some think, that all along this context the apostle hath reference to the Gnostics, a sort of heretics in the first age, (of which see Dr. Hammond i...
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‘Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,' Consequently they began to associate the divine with the world around and above them and set...
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Professing themselves to be wise they became fools. The follies of the wise Futility of thought has reached the character of folly. What, in fa...
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Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
The result of deliberate folly:
1 Corinthians 1:19-21 ; 1 Corinthians 3:18 ; 1 Corinthians 3:19 ; Isaiah 47:10 ; Jeremiah 10:14 ; Jeremiah 8:8 ; Jeremiah 8:9 ; Matthew 6:23...
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,