| John Whitecross - 1831 - 302 pages
...of reasoning to persuade us to their opinions, but very little in italics." Chap, xvii, ver. 18. — Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of...Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this habbler say ? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods ; because he preached unto... | |
| Mary Martha Sherwood - 1831 - 304 pages
...and when they heard of the resurection, they mocked him, saying, that he seemed to be a setter-forth of strange gods, because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection. (Acts xvii.) So far indeed the heathen philosophers judged rightly, that the raising up of the body... | |
| Nehemiah Adams - 1832 - 192 pages
...the only opposition to the Apostles on thia ground was made by the heathen themselves, who said, " He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange Gods —...he preached unto them JESUS and the resurrection." Without doubt, therefore, the Jews in the days of the Apostles were so well convinced that the Messiah... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...Samaritan, and hast a devil. John viii. 48. What will this babbler say? (scad the epicureans, SfC. of Paul) Ac. Jtvii. 18. Northieves, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom... | |
| John Pearson - 1832 - 652 pages
...when they heard of the resurrection they mocked him, some saying, that he seemed to be a setter-forth of strange gods, because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection." (Acts xvii. 18.) Butas the ancient philosophers thought a creation impossible, because they looked... | |
| 1833 - 82 pages
...daily with them that met with him. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, "What will this babbler...he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection. And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof... | |
| Universalist Church of America. General Convention. Concord, N.H. 1832 - 1833 - 152 pages
...philosophers of the Epicurians and stoicks. And some said '" What will this babbler say?" Others thought him to be "a setter forth of strange gods; because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection." And they took him, and brought unto Areopagus — the place where the Athenians held their supreme... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1834 - 276 pages
...daily with them that met with him. 18 Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicsj encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler...he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof... | |
| Rev. John Petherick (of Totnes.) - 1834 - 158 pages
...there, in the presence of renowned heathens ? We are briefly told, in the page of sacred history : " And some said, What will this babbler say ? other...some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods ;" — Why ? because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection ; having exhibited, with a degree... | |
| Charles Henry Wharton, George Washington Doane - 1834 - 444 pages
...should " suffer and rise again from the dead."|| At Athens he was regarded by the Philosophers, as " a setter forth of strange gods, because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection."IT But when he " stood in the midst of" the Areopagus, he repeated the substance of the... | |
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