...23 all things ye are very superstitious ;* for as I passed by, and beheld your places of devotion, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him I declare unto 24 you. God, who made the world, and all things therein, he being Lord of heaven and...

...ornaments, or a bride her attire ? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. t Acts xvii. 23. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an ahar with this inscription, TO THE* UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare...

...variableness, neither shadow of turning " (James i. 1 7). And the Apostle Paul said to the Athenians, " As I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found...Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth,...

...of mind, or in eorporeal pleasures, sueh as eating, drinking, and other sensual gratifieations. 23 For, as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inseription./; TO THE UNKNOWN GOi>. Whom, therefore, ye ignorantly worship, him deelare I unto you....

...Gentile Polytheists when he said to the men of Athens, — " As I passed by, and beheld your devotion, I found an altar with this inscription : To the Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignomntly worship, him declare I unto you." (Acts xvii. 23.) Thus they worshipped God under some undefined...

...in this ' manner.' 1. 581. The holy Paul.] ' Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill and said, " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious." s See the celebrated cartoon of Raphael. It is much to be lamented that Raphael never visited Athens....

...we may well refer him to the scene of old when " Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are rather superstitious. For, as I was passing along, and was looking at your objects of worship, I found...

...admission and worship of new gods was legally sanctioned. Here Paul stood up in the midst, and said, « Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious." The word, here translated superstitious, is frequently used in a more favourable sense : and if we...

...hear some new thing. 22. ^[ Then Paul stood in the midst of (the supreme court) Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too much addicted to the fear of demons. 23. For as I passed alongand beheld the things that ye worship,...

...things very religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription : TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom, therefore, ye worship without knowing him, Him do I declare unto you." After which follows the rest of the apostle*s...