19. For it is written:“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,and the learning of the learned I will set aside.”
20. Where is the wise one? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish?
21. For since in the wisdom of God the world did not come to know God through wisdom, it was the will of God through the foolishness of the proclamation to save those who have faith.
22. For Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom,