...bringest certaine strange things to our eares: we would know therefore what these things meane. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there,...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) Then Paul stood in the mids of Mars-hill, and said, Yee men of Athens, I perceive that...

...jokes about other people's sex lives', was 'insignificant chatter'. News Independent of the Polis For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent...nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing. Acts 17.21 The introduction to Plato's Phaedo depicts Echekrates of Phlious, a philosopher...

...brought him to Areopagus, saying May we know what this new doctrine ... is? ... For the Athenians . . . spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing. (Acts IT- 18-21 ) He sojourned twice in more congenial company at Corinth, where he probably...

...busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT, St. Paul, in i Timothy, 5:13. 2 The Athenians and strangers which were there spent...nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing. BIBLE: NEW TESTAMENT, Acts, 17:21. 3 Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering...

...question asked by the Athenian. He addresses it to both his companions: "Was it a god, strangers, 7 'Tor all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent...nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear, some new thing" : Acts 1721 8. See II §7 ("Dramatis Personae"). 9 Lau's 7806D 10 Laies 6753A. or some mortal,...

...of life of the inhabitants of Mayfair, but I rather suspect them of resembling the old Athenians who spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.8 Who invents the new things for their consumption? Who manufactures fictions to supply their...

...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...nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that...

...their horror of the tomb a risen Man. (b) THE GREAT INTELLECTUAL PHILANDERING OF ATHENS (17:21) (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent...nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) There were many in Athens who spent their leisure hours just hanging around hoping for...

...measure nor no end."7 Also commonly cited was Acts 17:2 1 : "For all the Athenians and Strangers that were there spent their Time in Nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new Thing," which Dunton triumphantly cites as praise in The Athenian Mercury. These discussions condemn...

...education and the censorship of manners. But the title also recalls Paul's sermon at Areopagus, where "all the Athenians, and strangers which were there,...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." When Paul finished, some men mocked him, others wished to hear him speak on another occasion,...