...furnish the drink-offering unto that number. m Acts xvii. 22. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye ate too superstitious. Col. ii. 21. (Touch not, taste not, handle not : Ver. 22. Which all are to perish...

...HoLT Sri* IT, he boldly stood up in the middtt of the Areopagus, and addressed them as follows : " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitions. For; as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription,...

...different quarters. XLI. (Lardner's Jewish and Heathen Testimonies, vol. iii. p. 21.) Acts xvii. 22. " Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said,...Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you." Diogenes Laertius, who wrote about the year 210, in his history of Epimenides, ^yho is...

...informs them that they could not lay such a thing to him, nor support such a charge against him; " For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found...Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.'' Now, as there most certainly was such a God, and whom they acknowledged to be an unknown...

...Av$peg Afl^ouot, says he, xara navra '0g Sstoioatfiovegepug 'vfiag Ssapo 34 ; in the common version, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. The English expression is, in my opinion, much harsher than the Greek. As the word no where else occurs...

....them. Hear now the apostle. ' Ye men of Athens/ says he, ' I perceive that in all things ye are top superstitious: for, as I passed by, and beheld .your...found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN coo. Whom therefore ye ignor rantly worship, him declare I unto you : God, that made the world, and...

...nearer to God 5 but this is not what St. Paul himfelf fays that he faw in Athens. His words are—" Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too fuperftiiious;" and, though he hath elfewhere warned the preachers of the Gofpel a gain ft " oppofitions...

...upbraiding them with their idolatries; but, in the most pleasing manner, addressed them as follows : Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye...beheld your devotions, i found an altar with this incription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom, therefore, ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God,...

...23 all things ye are very superstitious ;* for as I passed by, and beheld your places of devotion, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him I declare unto 24 you. God, who made the world, and all things therein, he being Lord of heaven and...

...Athens, before a most learned and most venerable audience. "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye arc loo superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar -with this inscription,...