| Edward Bather - 1840 - 586 pages
...wisdom of any set of people than that which is noted incidentally respecting the men of Athens : " 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. Consider, again, that as idleness lays you open to be tempted... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1840 - 232 pages
...especially in matters of religion, to which they were much given, t The apostle was in a short time en* "For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or else to hear some new thing." Acts, xvii. 21. countered by some philosophers of the leading... | |
| James Tate - 1840 - 490 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... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1840 - 790 pages
...— We would understand more clearly what is affirmed respecting Jesus and the resurrection. VEB. 21. , therein abide with God. y Ver. 17, 20. Brethren, &c.— See Note, r. 20. VER. 25. Now to tell or to hear some new thing.) For all Che Athenians.— This was their genera] character. And... | |
| 1841 - 206 pages
...bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. ?sRi>tl 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, Yemen... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 498 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,... | |
| Thomas Fuller, William Pickering - 1841 - 376 pages
...will more admire that any was ever destroyed. XVIII. ALL TONGUE AND EARS. WE read, Acts, xvii. 21, All the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. How cometh this transposition ? tell and hear ; it should be hear... | |
| Thomas Fuller, William Pickering - 1841 - 378 pages
...whether good be taken here for great, or for merry XVIII. ALL TONGUE AND EARS. WE read, Acts, xvii. 2 ], All the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. How cometh this transposition ? tell and hear; it should be hear... | |
| Jean Siffrein Maury - 1842 - 320 pages
...that deep moral culture, that profound sense of the infinite and invisible, that consciousness of « " 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. The whole passage, from the 16th verse to the... | |
| 1842 - 332 pages
...Athenians needed this less than others, because, as St. Luke here tells us, the whole city, " and the strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to see or hear some new thing." Curiosity, a passion for news, took up their minds more than any thing.... | |
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