Bible Dictionary: Man: Wiser than Other Creatures

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Job 35:11
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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The Benefit of Culture.
... Go to the ant, thou sluggard, and become wiser than it, which ... most part attain to
excellence; and, on the other hand, those ... But as we say that a man can be a ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter vi the benefit of culture.htm

"And These Things Write we unto You, that Your Joy May be Full. "
... wish for from them; but it is other things he ... Now, indeed, there hath been some wiser
than others, that have ... some rules and precepts to lead man into this true ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon viii and these things.htm

Explanation of the Words of Christ, "No Man Knoweth the Father ...
... They, however, who would be wiser than the apostles, write [the ... when He came [into
the world] as man, and [if ... Himself, if He had announced any other than He who ...
/.../irenaeus/against heresies/chapter vi explanation of the words.htm

Of the Son of God as Neither Made by the Father nor Less than the ...
... sex by which He did assume this other, in that He ... an injunction in these terms:
"Call no man your father ... that "the foolishness of God is wiser than men," [1567 ...
/.../augustine/a treatise on faith and the creed /chapter 4 of the son of.htm

1 Cor. I. 26, 27
... by the hand; but now, unless a man become a ... forsooth, as if making out something
wiser than what had ... all other things, both men and all other creatures He hath ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily v 1 cor i.htm

A Greater than Solomon
... Then, indeed, art thou wiser than Solomon. ... sin excepted; but still He is more, and
infinitely more, than man. ... in human breasts at this moment than any other ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 27 1881/a greater than solomon.htm

section ii.
... or that insolent Paradox, That a wise man is out of ... or Fortune; and it is an error
worse than heresie, to ... To wiser desires it is satisfaction enough to deserve ...
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Excellency of the Christian Institution.
... When a man with a steady faith, looks back ... offended at the presumption of being wiser
than they: they ... the apostles themselves any other hopes than of worldly ...
/.../sect vi excellency of the.htm

Answer to the Objection of the Heathen, that it was not Right to ...
... maintains his incredulity in his soul, the wiser he appears ... so, placing our finger
on what is man's peculiar and ... found no other end of your vain hope than this ...
/.../clement/exhortation to the heathen/chapter x answer to the objection.htm

Upon Compassion. Preached the First Sunday in Lent.
... teach without undergoing them ourselves; and grow wiser and better at a more easy
rate than men commonly do. ... of human life itself; that every man at his ...
/.../butler/human nature/sermon vi upon compassion preached.htm