Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I Of these and the like, who devote their attention to empty words, the divine Scripture most excellently says, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."[46] of this world, the philosophers of the Gentiles. "Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? "[201] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V And again, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent,"[19] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V And then, that we may known from whence this comes, he adds: "For it is written, `I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.' "[208] -that God, no doubt, who in reference to this very dispensation of His threatened long before that He would "destroy the wisdom of the wise."[893]