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 Ship-dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise - Page 135by Albert Bigelow Paine - 1910 - 393 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joshua Toulmin - 1801 - 206 pages
...account of their novelty, be peculiarly important and acceptable ; for " the Athenians and strangers there, spent their " time in nothing else but either to tell or hear some " new thing." It was an inviting opportunity for the Apostle to be full and explicit in his instructions. Here I... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...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 else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing. ) 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Te men... | |
| 1804 - 438 pages
...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 else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' Hill, and said, Ye men... | |
| 1805 - 574 pages
...himself before the Areopagus; neither of which appears in our version of Acts xvii: ' To say that " all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but cither to tell or to hear some new thing," is to make them arrant gossips, a weak idle useless people.... | |
| Timothy Kenrick - 1807 - 538 pages
...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 else but either to tell pr to^ar spme new thing. Areopagus was a building at Athens, in which a court, called the court... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...thou bringest certain strange things to our ears ; we would know therefore what these things mean. 2 1 (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.) >2£ Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said, Ye men... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 268 pages
...The following verse in the Acts of the Apostles. bears testimony to the truth of this remark — " For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to hear or tell some new thing." Of how many of my countrymen does this at present constitute the only... | |
| John Skinner - 1809 - 694 pages
...occasion to converse with them about four hundred years after Socrates, tells us " that the Athenians spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or hear some new thing." f Such, no doubt, was the cause of their first attachment to Socrates. But after he had been many years... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 714 pages
...thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we 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.) Paul, therefore, standing up in the midst of the Areopagus, said... | |
| Joseph Dennie - 1817 - 196 pages
...exclaim—There is bdellium and the onyx stone, the sources of our wealth and splendour. ON NEWSMONGERS. " 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. ATHENS, when visited by the apostle, was literally... | |
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