 | 1848
...4. The Greeks were deficient in habits of business. We are told in the Acts of the Apostles 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." A newsmonger is seldom a good man of business. Habits of business... | |
 | 1848
...4. The Greeks were deficient in habits of business. We are told in the Acts of the Apostles that, " All the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but cither to tell or to hear some new thing." A newsmonger is seldom a good man of business. Habits of... | |
 | John Brazer - 1849 - 367 pages
...be first, and there are first which shall be last." SERMON VII. MORBID APPETITE FOR EXCITEMENT. suit ALL THE ATHENIANS AND STRANGERS WHICH WERE THERE SPENT THEIR TIME IN NOTHING ELSE BUT EITHER TO TELL OB TO HEAR SOME NEW THING. Acts XVU. 21. THE city of Athens, at the time of St. Paul's visit,... | |
 | 1850 - 706 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 teil, or to hear some new thing.) 22 1T Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye... | |
 | S. and C. Stephenson (Typefounders) - 1797 - 112 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. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of... | |
 | William Ingraham Kip - 1850 - 288 pages
...the force of that single sentence in which St. Luke sums up the occupation of its inhabitants : — " All the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing."* But was it easy to preach to such the humbling truths of our... | |
 | 1851 - 310 pages
...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... | |
 | 1851
...RntclifTe. AC (Queries. PASSAGES IJ» THE NEW TESTAMENT ILLUSTRATED FROM DEMOSTHENES. Art., 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." Can any of your biblical correspondents inform me in whnt commentary... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1851 - 240 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 - 380 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,... | |
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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... 
