1 Corinthians 1:27

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

are not), "to bring to nothing things which are" (that is, which really are).[228]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

But how remote is our (Catholic) verity from the artifices of this heretic, when it dreads to arouse the anger of God, and firmly believes that He produced all things out of nothing, and promises to us a restoration from the grave of the same flesh (that died) and holds without a blush that Christ was born of the virgin's womb! At this, philosophers, and heretics, and the very heathen, laugh and jeer. For "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise"[892]

Tertullian On the Flesh of Christ

But, Marcion, consider well this Scripture, if indeed you have not erased it: "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise."[62]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

and again, "God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise? "[444]

Tertullian Against Praxeas

The foolish things also of the world hath God chosen to confound the things which are wise."[107]

Tertullian On Baptism

sufficient to meet each point is the divine declaration which has fore-run: "The foolish things of the world hath God elected to confound its wisdom; "[8]

Tertullian De Fuga in Persecutione

For the weak things of the world have been chosen by God to confound the strong, and the foolish things of the world to confound its wisdom.[5]

Origen Against Celsus Book III

And Paul also, knowing this, said, "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise,"[225]

Origen Against Celsus Book VI

As the wise and learned among the Greeks, then, commit errors in the service which they render to God, God "chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and base things of the world, and things that are weak, and things which are despised, and things which are nought, to bring to nought things that are; "and this, truly, "that no flesh should glory in the presence of God."[16]

Origen Against Celsus Book VII

God doubtless saw the pride and arrogance of those who, with contempt for all others, boast of their knowledge of God, and of their profound acquaintance with divine things obtained from philosophy, but who still, not less even than the most ignorant, run after their images, and temples, and famous mysteries; and seeing this, He "has chosen the foolish things of this world"[102]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI

disbelieved the Word, on this account "God chose the foolish things of the world,"[179]