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
| Albert Barnes - 1840 - 790 pages
...respecting Jesus and the resurrection. VEB. 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.) For all Che Athenians.— This was their genera] character. And strangers which were there.... | |
| Edward Bather - Sermons, English - 1840 - 586 pages
...incidentally respecting the men of Athens : " 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." * 3. Consider, again, that as idleness lays you open to be tempted to sensual vice, so... | |
| Joseph Bullar, Henry Bullar - Azores - 1841 - 404 pages
...or gods, the quiet Azoreans may be said to resemble the Athenians, of whom it is told, that " they spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." The gardens in Fayal, so far as we saw them, though laid out in a formal French style, with rectangular... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1841 - 498 pages
...occupied their attention instead of politics. " 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." Acts xvii. 21. In consequence of listening to continued disputes, the Athenians had become... | |
| Thomas Fuller, William Pickering - Conscience - 1841 - 378 pages
...XVIII. ALL TONGUE AND EARS. WE read, Acts, xvii. 2 ], All the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. How cometh this transposition ? tell and hear; it should be hear and tell; they must hear... | |
| 1841 - 206 pages
...therefore what these things mean. ?sRi>tl 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, and said, Yemen of Athens, I perceive... | |
| Thomas Fuller, William Pickering - Conscience - 1841 - 376 pages
...XVIII. ALL TONGUE AND EARS. WE read, Acts, xvii. 21, All the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. How cometh this transposition ? tell and hear ; it should be hear and tell ; they must hear... | |
| Jean Siffrein Maury - Eloquence - 1842 - 320 pages
...infinite and invisible, that consciousness of « " 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."— Acts, xvii., 21. The whole passage, from the 16th verse to the close of the chapter,... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1843 - 404 pages
...would know, therefore, what these things mean. (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.") The Areopagus, or the hill of Mars, was the place where ,the supreme court of justice was held. Whether... | |
| William Bentley Fowle - Readers - 1843 - 314 pages
...would know therefore what these things mean. (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.) Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed... | |
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