版权信息 內容簡介 總序 體例說明 閱讀與學習 前言 1 Saint Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians 2 Agrippina's Appeal to Nero 3 Saint Jerome to a Friend 4 Leonardo da Vinci to the Duke of Milan 5 Benjamin Franklin to a Young Friend 6 Ludwig van Beethoven to His Brothers 7 John Keats to Fanny Brawne 8 Abraham Lincoln to John D. Johnston 9 Sarah Bernhardt to Victorien Sardou 10 Henri Poincaré and Marie Curie's Recommendation Letter for Albert Einstein 11 Captain Robert Falcon Scott to the British Public 12 H.L.Mencken to Will Durant
... For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.” Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block,①and unto the Greeks foolishness;but unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men;and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise;and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:that no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:that, according as it is written, “He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.”... ... Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift② of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge;and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.