The Failure of Worldly Philosophy
1 Corinthians 1:19-21
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.…


Lessing, after toiling at the task of establishing a morality which should be independent of revelation, confesses his failure in this plaintive cry: "If any one can convince me that Christianity is true he will confer on me the greatest benefit that one can offer to another."



Parallel Verses
KJV: For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

WEB: For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing."




The Coronation of Nescience
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