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... Littell's Living Age - Page 2631853Full view - About this book
| 1836 - 418 pages
...we may look for the most favorable literary condition of the people. It is said that its citizens " spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." If the people were thus devoted to the acquisition and communication of knowledge, it might... | |
| William Branwhite Clarke - 1836 - 102 pages
...travels to Athens, where he imbibes the taste of the Athenians and strangers which were there, who spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some NEW THING (Acts xvii. 21). And what does he tell us, on his return ? Why, that when Paul saw those... | |
| William Warburton - 1837 - 720 pages
...which were there [ie such as resided there for education, or out of love for the Athenian manners], spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Now had the writer understood the citation to be of the criminal form, he would have given... | |
| Edward Cardwell - 1837 - 612 pages
...would know therefore what these 2i 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.) « If Then Paul stood in the midst of 4 Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive... | |
| 1837 - 512 pages
..." and brought him unto Areopagus," he says, " 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." Here we have a clew to the object of the scene. Not only the Athenians, but the numerous... | |
| John Young (M.A.) - 1837 - 248 pages
...Young. OF the " Athenians and the strangers" who visited that famous city, it is recorded, that " they spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." The same rage for novelty still exists, and is as notoriously evident in the present day.... | |
| Robert Philip - 1837 - 348 pages
...truth as it is in Jesus. All this can however be done ; for it was done in the case of Athenians, who " spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear of some new thing." Both the old and the new things of their wild and wanton speculations passed away,... | |
| 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... | |
| Daniel Parsons - 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... | |
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