1 Corinthians 1:25

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  “For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Cor 1:24-25.

Augustine of Hippo

• Augustine of Hippo, A Treatise on Faith and the Creed Chapter 4

  “For most true are these sayings of an apostle, both that “the foolishness of God is wiser than men,” and that “to the pure all things are pure.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 34

  “Because the Foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the Weakness of God is stronger than men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 22–25.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 60

  “Hear the strength of Him: that which is a weak thing of God, is stronger than men.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms Psalm 69

  “Doth He call this His improvidence, whereof the Apostle speaketh, “the foolishness of God is wiser than men”?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25.

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• Augustine of Hippo, On the Holy Trinity XIII.14Book XIII

  “For Christ was crucified, not through immortal power, but through the weakness which He took upon Him in mortal flesh; of which weakness nevertheless the apostle says, “that the weakness of God is stronger than men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God X.27Book X

  “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 19–25.

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• Augustine of Hippo, The City of God XVI.2Book XVI

  “Wherefore the same apostle says, “The weakness of God is stronger than men; and the foolishness of God is wiser than men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 7

  “…world, and things that are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, as though they were things that are, to bring to nought things that are.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 20–28.

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• Augustine of Hippo, Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 8

  “But the weakness of God is stronger than men.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25.

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Jerome

• Jerome, Against the Pelagians Book 1

  “And to return to the Apostle Paul, “The foolishness of God is wiser than men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25.

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• Jerome, Against the Pelagians Book 2

  “1 Cor. i. 25.” — the author cites it

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 108

  “She replied in the words of the apostle, “we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men,” and “we are fools for Christ’s sake” but “the foolishness of God is wiser than men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25.

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• Jerome, Letters Letter 133

  “For I have known that it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent,” and “the foolishness of God is wiser than men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25.

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• Jerome, To Pammachius against John of Jerusalem

  “And we received the foolishness of Christ because the weakness of God is wiser than men.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25.

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Catena Aurea on Matthew

• Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew

  “In like manner our mother, the Wisdom of God, sickened as it were in the putting on the flesh, according to that of the Apostle, “The weakness of God is stronger than men,” [1 Cor 1:25] protects our weakness, and resists the Devil that he should not make us his prey.” — the author cites it

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Hilary of Poitiers

• Hilary of Poitiers, On the Trinity Book 3

  “Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 20–25.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion II.2Book II

  “We, however, know that “the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25.

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• Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.4Book V

  “What is that “weakness of God which is stronger than men,” but the nativity and incarnation of God?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. i. 25.

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• 1 Corinthians 11:19

  Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.

• Ephesians 1:19

  Cited together in Catechism §272.

• Ephesians 1:20

  Cited together in Catechism §272.

• Ephesians 1:21

  Cited together in Catechism §272.

• Ephesians 1:22

  Cited together in Catechism §272.

• Philippians 1:18

  Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.

• Song of Songs 1:3

  Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.

• Isaiah 5:7

  Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.

• Isaiah 29:14

  Cited together in The City of God X.27.

• Isaiah 40:13

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.

• Isaiah 40:14

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.

• Matthew 7:20

  Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.

• Matthew 20:22

  Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.

• Matthew 23:38

  Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 23:37–39 (Catena Aurea).

• Matthew 23:39

  Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 23:37–39 (Catena Aurea).

• Matthew 26:39

  Cited together in The City of God XVI.2.

• Luke 8:18

  Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion II.2.