Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Ver. 25. Because the foolishness] The wisest man compared to God, Simia videbitur, non sapiens, said Heraclitus, as Plato relateth it, he will appear to be an ape rather than a wise man. But what meant that malicious fool Genebrard, to call reverend Beza, Theomorus for Theodorus? Was it not of God, so to direct the tongue of this Caiaphas the second, that in Beza and himself might this Scripture be fulfilled, το μωρον του θεου σοφωτερον των ανθρωπων, &c., "The foolishness of God," &c.