...he preaehed unto them Jesus, and the resurreetion. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers, whieh were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus,** saying, May we know what this new...

...find the same inquisitive disposition as in ancient Athens : " All the Athenians," says St. Luke, " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing."* As to the Turks, they exclaimed : Fransouse! Effendi! and continued to smoke their pipes,...

...bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know, therefore, what these things mean. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there,...nothing else, but either to .tell, or to hear some new thing.) Paul, therefore, standing up in the midst of the Areopagus, said : Ye men of Athens, I...

...exclaim—There is bdellium and the onyx stone, the sources of our wealth and splendour. ON NEWSMONGERS. " For all the Athenians and strangers, which were there,...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing."—Acts xvii. 21. ATHENS, when visited by the apostle, was literally a barber's shop. The...

...certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what thèse things mean. 21 (For ail thé Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22 Then Paul stood in thé midst of Mars' Hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive...

...know, therefore, what these things 'mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which Chap. 2. 12. i were there, spent their time in nothing *• *¿ else, but either to tell, or to hear some АП. new thing.) 22 U Then Paul stood in the midst of ь Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I...

...were new, they would be wrell received. For the Athenians, as we learn from the highest authority, " spent " their time in nothing else but either to " tell or to hear some new thing*/' When therefore St. Paul came to Athens, and preached to that celebrated school of philosophy...

...Thessalonians, to whom this rule was given, were probably an inquisitive race, and like the men of Athens, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing. We must frame such a supposition, to excuse St. Paul from the charge of impertinence. For...

...something new. It was so in the days of the Apostles ; the people were desirous to hear something new. "For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to te«ll or hear some new thing." If we inquire into the cause of this natural disposition, almost...

...has received a graphic and pregnant delineation from the pen of the sacre^f' historian : — " For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there,...nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear, some new thing." (Acts xvii. 21.) Demosthenes, in one of his Orations, delivered three centuries earlier,...