| Robin Sampson - 2009 - 316 pages
...For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would 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.) Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of... | |
| H.v. Morton, v Morton - 2008 - 522 pages
...For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but to tell, or hear some new thing.)" How true is this description in Acts oi the curiosity and mental... | |
| Blair Hoxby - 2008 - 336 pages
...education and the censorship of manners. But the title also recalls Paul's sermon at Areopagus, where "all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." When Paul finished, some men mocked him, others wished to hear... | |
| Michael Llewellyn Smith - 2004 - 280 pages
...For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would 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.) Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of... | |
| Ronald Shultz - 2004 - 334 pages
...old crowd! Bawk, same old crowd!" Does your church have the same kind of crowd? Let's see. Acts 17:21 (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.) (KJV) Some folks pick their churches and bars for the babble or... | |
| Penelope Murray, Peter Wilson - 2004 - 468 pages
...engagement of ordinary citizens must rank among Athens' most extraordinary qualities. The outlook endured. '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 of the Apostles 17:21l. At the same time, the demos's intellectual... | |
| Richard J. Hewitt - 2004 - 278 pages
...They're like the Athenians Paul encountered on one of his missionary journeys and described in Acts 17: "{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.)" (v.21) Paul called them "too superstitious." Many today would... | |
| Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2004 - 638 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... | |
| Charlie P. Johnston - 2005 - 306 pages
...thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would 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.) Acts 17:16-21 These Athenians were ever learning something new.... | |
| James D. Bratt - 2005 - 320 pages
...mercurial temperament, they delighted in excitement and were continually seeking its procuring causes. "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 Here then, according to Mr. Finney's theory, was the very people... | |
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