 | Demosthenes - 1851 - 280 pages
...idle curiosity which our orator here ridicules is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, xvii. 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." yeVoiro yap. yap is frequently used in questions, where there is... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 396 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,... | |
 | 1851 - 794 pages
...under the impression that Luke's description applied to the modern as well as the ancient Athenians, " 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." They met with the most flattering success ; but as Mr. Darling... | |
 | 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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 568 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.) Paul at Athens, the Seat of Culture Athens was two hundred miles... | |
 | 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... | |
 | J. Paul Hunter - 1990 - 452 pages
...another printer issue for him — cites Acts 17:21 as the source of Dunton's term "Athenian": ". . . all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing." In work after work, Dunton sought to gratify public taste for... | |
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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... 
