Book, Chapter

  1        1, XIII   |           among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become
  2        1, XIII   |          fool, that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this
  3        1, XIII   |           among you seemeth to be wise, let him become a fool universally;"
  4        1, XIII   |         world, that he may become wise." We term, then, "the wisdom
  5        1, XVIII  |          greatly superior to your wise poets and philosophers."~
  6        1, XIX    |        than Plato, or those other wise men (who lived) among the
  7        1, XX     |     animals, are to be considered wise; but if any Jew, who has
  8        1, XXI    |           be found existing among wise nations and eloquent men,
  9        1, XXI    |   adherence to opinions that were wise and true, and educated his
 10        1, XXV    |           names invented by these wise men of Celsus, who are the
 11        1, XXIX   |            or Plato, or any other wise man in any part of the world
 12        1, XL     |           of the star, and of the wise men who came from the east
 13        1, LV     |           Jews, who were reckoned wise men, I quoted these prophecies;
 14        1, LVII   |           people, saying he was a wise man, and a teacher of certain
 15        1, LVII   |          in quoting the extremely wise observation of that Gamaliel
 16        1, LXII   |         some individuals who were wise according to the apprehension
 17        2, IV     |           showing what a depth of wise and mysterious reasons is
 18        2, XIII   |         to Greeks and Barbarians, wise and foolish alike? For the
 19        2, LXXVIII|     wonderful if it were only the wise who were so convened; but
 20        3, XVIII  |           Christians "repel every wise man from the doctrine of
 21        3, XXV    |        leading improper lives, no wise physician would wish to
 22        3, XLIV   |        been instructed, or who is wise or prudent (for such qualifications
 23        3, XLV    |          is that we should become wise, can be proved not only
 24        3, XLV    |          towards obtaining it. So wise, moreover, was Solomon,
 25        3, XLV    |          ancients, and of all the wise men of Egypt; and he was
 26        3, XLV    |       desire that there should be wise men among believers, that
 27        3, XLV    |           his prophecies: "Who is wise, and he will understand
 28        3, XLV    |         in the learning which the wise men around the king in Babylon
 29        3, XLVI   |     believe upon Him to send them wise men and scribes, saying, "
 30        3, XLVI   |      Behold, I will send unto you wise men and scribes, and some
 31        3, XLVI   |           Egyptian magicians, and wise men, and enchanters, who
 32        3, XLVII  |       object of the Gospel to win wise men. Now, let him who is
 33        3, XLVII  |        says of them that they are wise not in things which relate
 34        3, XLVII  |           all-important, they are wise men of the world: for as
 35        3, XLVII  |         of truth, says of certain wise men among the Greeks, when
 36        3, XLVIII |       brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not
 37        3, XLVIII |         the world to confound the wise; and the base things, and
 38        3, XLVIII |         one who is instructed, or wise, or prudent, embraces the
 39        3, XLVIII |          not been stated that "no wise man according to the flesh,"
 40        3, XLVIII |        flesh," but that "not many wise men according to the flesh,"
 41        3, XLVIII |          who is 'instructed,' or 'wise,' or 'prudent?' " Nay, let
 42        3, XLVIII |          to us "instructed," and "wise," and "prudent;" and none
 43        3, XLIX   |         opinions is what even the wise men among the Greeks would
 44        3, XLIX   |   excellent thing for a man to be wise, but not to seem so, as
 45        3, XLIX   |          best opinions, and to be wise. And it becomes us rather
 46        3, L      |           approach an assembly of wise men, nor dare to exhibit
 47        3, LII    |           approach an assembly of wise men, nor dare to show off
 48        3, LII    |    meetings should be composed of wise men, and those things among
 49        3, LIII   |       mentioned in an assembly of wise men, but that wherever (
 50        3, LIV    |         Greeks and Barbarians, to wise men and fools, (for they
 51        3, LVI    |        Celsus point out from what wise parent, or from what teachers,
 52        3, LX     |          to us; and whoever has a wise tongue through meditating
 53        3, LXX    |          to be God, and good, and wise. But Celsus asserts--not
 54        3, LXXII  |    expresses himself as follows: "Wise men reject what we say,
 55        3, LXXII  |             no one who was really wise would reject what is said
 56        3, LXXII  |         with sophistical opinions wise, we answer that in conformity
 57        3, LXXIII |         slanders he says that "no wise man believes the Gospel,
 58        3, LXXIII |        subjection to the laws, no wise man would yield obedience
 59        3, LXXIII |  legislator, and especially if by wise man he means one who is
 60        3, LXXIII |           man he means one who is wise (by living) in conformity
 61        3, LXXIII |    Himself even those who are not wise in the way in which it is
 62        3, LXXIII |         the world to confound the wise," calling, in a general
 63        3, LXXIII |        calling, in a general way, wise all who appear to have made
 64        3, LXXIII |       professing themselves to be wise they became fools, and changed
 65        3, LXXVIII|  countless other evils,--which no wise man would say is the act
 66        4, XII    |      condescend" to children, and wise men to those youths who
 67        4, XXX    |        and which is understood by wise men, is compared to the
 68        4, XXX    |       professing themselves to be wise, they became foolish, and
 69        4, XXXVIII|          the blood, and lulls the wise.~Her did th' interpreter
 70        4, XLIV   |           from the beginning from wise men, among whom a certain
 71        4, XLV    |        have assumed the case of a wise man being left with an only
 72        4, XLV    |     deemed worse than that of the wise man who, according to the
 73        4, L      |       applies the saying: "Who is wise, and he shall understand
 74        4, LIX    |           a correct idea. Would a wise man, indeed, after the death
 75        4, LXXII  |        another. For those who are wise ambassadors of the "word"
 76        4, LXXV   |      creature. And one of our own wise men says somewhere: "Do
 77        4, LXXXVI |           it appear that they are wise, and more intelligent than
 78        4, LXXXVII|          these are wiser than the wise: The ants are a people not
 79        4, LXXXVII|          are "wiser even than the wise," but they who are indicated
 80        4, XCVI   |         those alone who are truly wise and sincerely religious
 81        4, XCVII  |      virtuous alone who are truly wise, for no wicked man is so.
 82        4, XCVII  |          such things; nor did any wise man ever say that the assemblies
 83        5, II     |            much inferior to those wise men among mankind, who on
 84        5, X      |        contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness
 85        5, XX     |           that the meaning of our wise men is not to be determined
 86        5, LXV    |         the apostle as a holy and wise man, will not adopt his
 87        6, III    |       Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and
 88        6, IV     |         than the Creator." As the wise and learned among the Greeks,
 89        6, IV     |         the world to confound the wise; and base things of the
 90        6, IV     |         the presence of God." Our wise men, however,--Moses, the
 91        6, V      |           the torches of the five wise virgins.~
 92        6, XII    |        think that I am in reality wise." Such are the passages
 93        6, XIII   |          regarding the man who is wise, according to divine wisdom,
 94        6, XIII   |        corruption when he beholds wise men dying." Divine wisdom,
 95        6, XIV    |       from the very beginning our wise men were trained in the
 96        6, XIV    |         in tenfold degree all the wise men of that country. At
 97        6, XIV    |       ordinary believers), a few "wise" men, who have come over
 98        6, XXVIII |           omit even that He was a wise man, or a person of virtuous
 99        6, XLVIII |         is not happier than their wise man, but that the happiness
100        7, V      |        chosen as his prophet some wise man? or if such an one was
101        7, V      |        was endeavouring to become wise How came he not to prefer
102        7, VI     |       among the Greeks, judged no wise man, nay, no man at all,
103        7, VI     |        words are:--~"Sophocles is wise, and Euripides is wiser,~ 
104        7, VI     |         he gives the designation "wise" to the tragic poets, it
105        7, VII    |           Jews, some of them were wise men before they became divinely
106        7, VII    |     prophets, while others became wise by the illumination which
107        7, XI     |     belongs only to those who are wise in the truth of Christ (
108        7, XVII   |           suffered as one who was wise and perfect, whatever it
109        7, XXIII  |        the teaching of Christ, no wise man could come to the Father.
110        7, XXIII  |         what sense he speaks of a wise man. For if he means one
111        7, XXIII  |        For if he means one who is wise in "the wisdom of this world,"
112        7, XXIII  |           is denied to one who is wise in that sense. But if by
113        7, XXIII  |          of God," far from such a wise man being refused access
114        7, XXXII  |          what "wisdom" is to "the wise," and "justice" to "the
115        7, XXXVI  |    persons who are represented as wise and well versed in divine
116        7, XXXVI  |      woman, a wretched slave, the wise maxims which he had learned
117        7, XXXVII |   writings, perused only by a few wise men, but in such as are
118        7, XXXIX  |         to be desired to make one wise;" and again not seeing,
119        7, XLI    |       poets, as he calls them, to wise men and philosophers, without
120        7, XLI    |          divinely inspired poets, wise men, and philosophers. If
121        7, XLI    |        Word. Who, then, are those wise men and philosophers from
122        7, XLII   |         men to walk in it. But as wise men have found it for the
123        7, XLIII  | unspeakable." He says: "since the wise men have found out this
124        7, XLIV   |    philosophers--"to confound the wise," who are not ashamed to
125        7, XLVII  |          who accounted themselves wise gave proofs of great folly,
126        7, XLIX   |         those who call themselves wise have despised these virtues,
127        7, L      |     prophets, who have given some wise suggestions on the subject
128        7, L      |      speaking lies." Besides, our wise men have such a contempt
129        7, LIX    |     Greeks by Plato or any of the wise men of Greece, or whether
130        7, LX     |            then, if Plato and the wise men among the Greeks, in
131        7, LXVI   |           the reputation of being wise men, render to them what
132        8, VIII   |        this kind would befall the wise, by one man serving two
133        8, VIII   |            by one man serving two wise men in different places.
134        8, X      |           and that they alone are wise,--and who they are who are
135        8, XXI    |           a feast," as one of the wise men of Greece has well said, "
136        8, XXXI   |    discipline of the souls of the wise. For those who through all
137        8, XXXV   |          does not consider that a wise man would not wish to do
138        8, LIV    |         together, and could in no wise lift up herself. And when
139        8, LX     |      despise the opinion of those wise men who say that most of
140        8, LXVI   |       such a command should in no wise be regarded; but we must