 | Edward Bouverie Pusey - 1852 - 382 pages
...bringest certain strange things to our v.2u,2i. ears: we would fain 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. Here the thing noted is, that though ever occupied only in this... | |
 | T. Dalton - 1852 - 158 pages
...the world. So entirely was the city given up to the acquisition of worldly wisdom, that it is said, "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. Yet, with all her learning, genius, taste, and... | |
 | 1852 - 800 pages
...things mean." And this iuquisitiveness was entirely agreeable to the genius of the place: "For all tlie Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell orto hear some new thing." Many of them had much leisure, and wanted something new or curious... | |
 | Titus Maccius Plautus - 1852 - 690 pages
...ceusure of them in the Seventeenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, v. 21: "For all the Atheniaus and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing." choose to know. All people were in the habit of saying that this... | |
 | 1854 - 46 pages
...dissatisfaction with present attainments and unavailing search for greater; of which, the fact that " All the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing," is indubitable evidence. The antagonism of strong forces never... | |
 | Miguel de Unamuno - 1977 - 580 pages
...marvelous description of the Athenians of the decadence, 54 those dainty connoisseurs of the curious, "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" (21). An incisive characterization, this, which depicts for us in... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - 1978 - 644 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, and said, Ye men... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 568 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.) Paul at Athens, the Seat of Culture Athens was two hundred miles... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1980 - 600 pages
...fain know therefore, what these things may mean." It was a city of talkers, that city of theirs. " 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. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said, Ye men of... | |
 | Dick Iverson - 1989 - 184 pages
...doctrines, and coveting sensational revelations. This was the character flaw of the Athenians of Paul's day: "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 17:21). No one wants this Athenian spirit to scatter their... | |
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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... 
