 | Daniel Dewar - 1838 - 516 pages
...all the streets, and all assemblies, were full of Jupiter." The sacred historian informs us, that " all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or hear some new thing." Demosthenes gives the same account of the Athenians. In one of his... | |
 | Daniel Parsons - 1838 - 412 pages
...have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him 261 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 282 SERMON XVII. PRACTICAL BELIEF. S. JAMKS ii. 19, 20. Thou believest... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 pages
...sacred historian is curious, and is proved by their own writers. "All the Athenians," says St Luke, "and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing ;" and Demosthenes, their celebrated orator, represents them as spending... | |
 | James Tate - 1840 - 462 pages
...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 else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill (where the court... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1840 - 790 pages
...mean. — We would understand more clearly what is affirmed 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... | |
 | James Tate - 1840 - 490 pages
...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 else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill (where the court... | |
 | Edward Bather - 1840 - 586 pages
...wisdom of any set of people than that which is noted 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... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1840 - 232 pages
...especially in matters of religion, to which they were much given, t The apostle was in a short time en* "For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or else to hear some new thing." Acts, xvii. 21. countered by some philosophers of the leading... | |
 | 1841 - 206 pages
...bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 498 pages
...and as restless as their ancestors, but literature 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,... | |
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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... 
