1 Corinthians 1:27-29 Description The weak things of the world you choose, to confound the strong — applied to Lapide's own weakness as instrument of God Preface and Praise of Sacred Scripture Peroration and Conclusion of Section One — Quoted in the peroration as Lapide's act of self-offering "because the weak things of the world you choose, to confound the strong; and the ignoble things of the world, and the contemptible, and the things that are not, to destroy the things that are, so that no flesh may glory in your sight" Related Paul the Apostle