| 1834 - 406 pages
...thou bringest certain strange dungs to our ears ; we would know therefore what these diings 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 H Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye judge... | |
| Heman Humphrey - 1834 - 434 pages
...which cometrTfrom God only. THE LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS CHARACTER AND TASTE OF THE AGE. fa*- -2X .-/S!"V For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, bat either to tell, or to hear (xaivortfior) something newer. — Acts. IT is impossible to deny, what... | |
| Edward Cardwell - 1837 - 612 pages
...thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these 2i 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.) « If Then Paul stood in the midst of 4 Mars' hill, and said,... | |
| 1837 - 512 pages
...excited to hear him. After stating that " they took" Paul, " and brought him unto Areopagus," he says, " 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 we have a clew to the object of the scene. Not only the Athenians,... | |
| 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...nothing else but either to tell or hear some new thing." Demosthenes gives the same account of the Athenians. In one of his orations, in order to encourage... | |
| John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1838 - 520 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.) The character of the people. at Athens struck the sacred writer... | |
| 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... | |
| William Brocklehurst Stonehouse - 1839 - 534 pages
...Athenian Mercury*, projected by Dunton, and founded as he himself tells us on the xvii Acts, verse 21, "for all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to hear or tell some new thing:" the object of the work being to receive and answer all questions,... | |
| James Tate - 1840 - 462 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 (where the court... | |
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