 | 1885 - 302 Seiten
...Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus, whatever we may have in this world, will profit us nothing. For, " thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in...; for in these things I delight, saith the Lord." There is in the language of the text two general and prominent features. The first, a Divine prohibition... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1841 - 602 Seiten
...which are not, to bring to nought things that are ; that no flesh should glory in his presence."* For "Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in...righteousness, in the earth : for in these things do I delight, saith the Lord."-f0 ! my soul, earth and heaven are spread before thee. Each are inviting... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 422 Seiten
...29. Lord eomhis eye the passage in 1er. ix. 23, 24. though he has not expressly quoted it. "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth." The sentiment is a favourite one with Paul, as it should be with all Christians. See Note on 1 Cor.... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 514 Seiten
...independence. But God tells them that all their glorying in themselves is vain and presumptuous. " Thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory in...earth : for in these things I delight saith the Lord." To glory is to rejoice, and therefore the term is sometimes used in a good sense, and sometimes in... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1842 - 530 Seiten
...independence. But God tells them that all their glorying in themselves is vain and presumptuous. " Thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory in...earth : for in these things I delight saith the Lord." To glory is to rejoice, and therefore the term is sometimes used in a good sense, and sometimes in... | |
 | Anglican fathers - 1842 - 402 Seiten
...therefore knows best how to judge of these, tells us how we should value ourselves and others : " Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord." To know these divine qualities and perfections signifies here, to understand them so as to imitate... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1842 - 534 Seiten
...which all others may be referred, are those specified by the Prophet; saying, in Jer.9.23,24. the name of God, " Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man...loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the Earth." Where we see there are three things wherein Almighty God requires us not to " glory," and only one... | |
 | 1745 - 516 Seiten
...their Head. The humble can never hear of this without being glad. Nor is it vain glory, to glory in the Lord. " Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,...loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth." (Jer. ix. 23, 24.) We cannot magnify God — cannot add'any thing to his glory, but we should constantly... | |
 | Henry Alford - 1842 - 220 Seiten
...And this knowledge is represented to us as the highest acquirement and exaltation of man: " Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth." So that the knowledge of God is a pursuit truly worthy of the best and highest energies of his creatures.... | |
 | Robert South - 1842 - 638 Seiten
...excellent than strength, more to be admired than wisdom ? Yet what says God of all these, Jer. ix. 23, 24, Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in...understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord, that exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth. So that this is a knowledge... | |
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Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the Lord... 
