 | 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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 2001 - 368 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie - 1977 - 228 pages
...had passed the summit of its glory and was now on the decline. The Bible says of it at this period: "All the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." No radios, no cables, no news dispatches; those Athenians must... | |
 | Alfred Marshall - 1992 - 834 pages
...thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 me: for I proceeded forth and came "You do not know me or my Father," Jesus to tell , or to hear some new thing.) 221" Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said. Ye... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...but pleasant words are pure. He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house. Proverbs 15:26-27 102 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 17:21 103 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he... | |
 | Eleanor Scott Meyers - 1992 - 370 pages
...only for fulfilling terms of the written contract. Novelty. What is the new way? Paul at Athens: "They spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or hear one new thing" (Acts 17:21, KIV alt). Concern for the future. Agencies. Problems are referred to agencies.... | |
 | Thomas Inman - 1993 - 544 pages
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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... 
