and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, 'yea' and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are:
and God chees þe feble thingis of þe world, to confounde þe stronge thingis; and God chees þe vnnoble thingis and dispisable thingis of þe world, and tho thingis þat ben not, to distruye tho thingis þat ben;