Then those things which were seen were known and there were other things which were not known; and through those which were manifest they expected to reach those that were hidden.

And they stumbled and fell into the falsehoods of their own imagining ...

So God made foolish the wisdom of this world, and He pointed out another wisdom, which seemed foolishness and was not.

For it preached Christ crucified, in order that truth might be sought in humility.

But the world despised it, wishing to contemplate the works of God, which He had made a source of wonder, and it did not wish to venerate what He had set for imitation, neither did it look to its own disease, seeking medicine in piety; but presuming on a false health, it gave itself over with vain curiosity to the study of alien things." These considerations troubled Abelard not at all.