Bible Dictionary: Contempt: Folly of

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Proverbs 11:12
He that is void of wisdom despises his neighbor: but a man of understanding holds his peace.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

The Many-Sided Contrast of Wisdom and Folly
... finds confirmation of its great principle that goodness is wisdom and sin folly. ...
8 asserts that, on the whole, honour attends goodness, and contempt wickedness ...
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Of Images, and the Ornaments of Temples, and the Contempt in which ...
... iv."of images, and the ornaments of temples, and the contempt in which they are
held even by ... But Flaccus, as a writer of satire, ridiculed the folly of men. ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap iv of images and the.htm

Folly of the Arguments Derived by the Heretics from Numbers ...
... Against Heresies: Book II Chapter XXIV."Folly of the arguments derived by the heretics
from numbers, letters, and ... [3187] [Note the manly contempt with which ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter xxiv folly of the arguments.htm

The Folly of Slander. Part 1.
... endeavour to do (1) by describing the nature, (2) by declaring the folly of it ... those
are laid at his door, which plainly do arise from the contempt or neglect ...
/.../barrow/sermons on evil-speaking by isaac barrow/the folly of slander part.htm

Table of Contents
... Not to Be Discouraged in Their Way, by the Scoffs and Contempt of Wicked Men.
[79]29. The Extent and Reasonableness of Self-Denial. [80]09. The Folly and Danger ...
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The Seventh Book Shows from Various Statements Made to The
... writings, I say, for I do not like to insert in my own work the nauseous stuff our
rhetorician utters, or to display his ignorance and folly to contempt in the ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 1 the seventh book.htm

Of the Way of Error and of Truth: that it is Single, Narrow, and ...
... contains something which resembles wisdom, and they who perceive the folly of men ...
but those who either wish to follow virtue, or profess a contempt for things ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap vii of the way of.htm

Christ Crucified
... What contempt hath God poured upon the wisdom of this world! ... He has allowed
it to word out its own conclusions, and prove its own folly. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/christ crucified.htm

What are Consequences of Backsliding in Heart.
... and contempt. A backslider is, indeed, the most foolish person in the world. Having
experimental knowledge of the true way of life, he has the infinite folly ...
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Of the Errors of Certain Philosophers, and of the Sun and Moon.
... If you have so great a contempt for money, employ it in acts of kindness ... eighteen
times larger than the earth; and, as was consistent with this folly, he said ...
/.../lactantius/the divine institutes/chap xxiii of the errors of.htm

Subtopics

Contempt

Contempt of Ministers, is a Despising of God

Contempt: A Characteristic of the Wicked

Contempt: Causes Saints to Cry to God

Contempt: Children of Belial

Contempt: False Teachers

Contempt: Folly of

Contempt: Forbidden Towards: Believing Masters

Contempt: Forbidden Towards: Christ's Little Ones

Contempt: Forbidden Towards: Parents

Contempt: Forbidden Towards: The Poor