1 Corinthians 3:19

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I

For on the believer alone, who is separated entirely from the rest, who by the Scripture are called wild beasts, rests the head of the universe, the kind and gentle Word, "who taketh the wise in their own craftiness. For the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they axe vain; "[45]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I

This, then, "the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God," and of those who are "the wise the Lord knoweth their thoughts that they are vain."[119]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

Wherefore? "Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God."[273]

Tertullian Against Marcion Book V

an excellent testimony turns up in what (the apostle) here adjoins: "For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain."[275]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

according to the estimate of God, and that the very "Wisdom of the world is foolishness," (as the inspired word) pronounces it to be.[27]

Origen Against Celsus Book VI

is foolishness with God."[60]

Origen Against Celsus Book VII

For if he means one who is wise in "the wisdom of this world," as it is called, "which is foolishness with God,"[45]

Dionysius A Commentary on the Beginning of Ecclesiastes

I was vainly puffed up, and increased wisdom; not the wisdom which God has given, but that wisdom of which Paul says, "The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God."[6]

Arnobius Against the Heathen Book II

what the issues to be proposed in lawsuits are, how many kinds of cases there are, how many ways of pleading, what the genus is, what the species, by what methods an opposite is distinguished from a contrary,-do you therefore think that you know what is false, what true, what can or cannot be done, what is the nature of the lowest and highest? Have the well-known words never rung in[39]

The Epistle of Pope Urban First

for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.[12]

Origen Commentary on John Book II

For what is that which is destroyed by the breath of the mouth of Christ, Christ being the Word and Truth and Wisdom, but the lie? And what is that which is brought to naught by the manifestation of Christ's coming, Christ being conceived as wisdom and reason, what but that which announces itself as wisdom, when in reality it is one of those things with which God deals as the Apostle describes,[19]