 May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20. For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing...  The Quarterly Review - Page 2961856Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Parsons - Sermons, English - 1838 - 412 pages
...foundation of the world." SERMON XVI. NOVELTIES. ACTS xvii. 21. The Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. S. LUKE here confirms the other accounts we have of the Athenian character from their own... | |
 | 1838 - 492 pages
...remember that in the days of Paul the apostle "all the Athenians and strangers which were at Athens, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing ;" and yet the new things that they heard, all put together, did not teach them to find out... | |
 | 1841 - 538 pages
...inconstant professor, the mere religious gossip, the man who in hia conduct is like the Athenians, " who spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing," complain that the evidences of true conversion are uncertain and always difficult to attain... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1838 - 702 pages
...orators, in witnessing trials of skill, and as St. Luke in the Acts observes, " spending their time in nothing else but either to tell, or to hear, some new thing." The Barathrum was a public pit in the city, into which condemned criminals were thrown and left to perish.... | |
 | Augustus Clissold - New Jerusalem Church - 1839 - 260 pages
...such a knowledge than with it. We read in the Acts, that " all the Athenians and strangers at Athens spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing;" and hence, when St. Paul was at Athens, they were curious to know what new thing it was... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Families - 1839 - 672 pages
...loquacious interference in the concerns of other men. The people of Athens, when St. Paul was in their city, spent their time " in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Many Christians seem by their conduct to be descendants of these Athenians. Impelkd by... | |
 | James Yonge - 1839 - 456 pages
...hear." A third sort, with whom even St. Paul could not prevail, were those idle trifling persons, who spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear " some new thing." What more hope was there of such as these than of the others? They had no seriousness of... | |
 | 1839 - 498 pages
...being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them." Even the Athenians, who spent their time " in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing," proclaimed their ignorance by erecting an altar "to the unknown God ;" and St. Paul, in... | |
 | James Tate - Bible - 1840 - 490 pages
...would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill (where the court of Areopagus was held)... | |
 | James Tate - 1840 - 462 pages
...would know therefore what these things mean. 21. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill (where the court of Areopagus was held)... | |
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