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... The Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated - Seite 429von William Warburton - 1837 - 2 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1836 - 558 Seiten
...similar reason. But there is this remarkable difference between Athenians and Oxonians. The former " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new things." The latter are such exclusive fautors of what is established, antiquated, and customary,... | |
| William Branwhite Clarke - 1836 - 102 Seiten
...travels to Athens, where he imbibes the taste of the Athenians and strangers which were there, who spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some NEW THING (Acts xvii. 21). And what does he tell us, on his return ? Why, that when Paul saw those... | |
| Edward Cardwell - 1837 - 612 Seiten
...would know therefore what these 2i 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.) « If Then Paul stood in the midst of 4 Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive... | |
| 1837 - 512 Seiten
..." and brought him unto Areopagus," he says, " 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." Here we have a clew to the object of the scene. Not only the Athenians, but the numerous... | |
| John Young (M.A.) - 1837 - 248 Seiten
...Young. OF the " Athenians and the strangers" who visited that famous city, it is recorded, that " they spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." The same rage for novelty still exists, and is as notoriously evident in the present day.... | |
| Robert Philip - 1837 - 348 Seiten
...truth as it is in Jesus. All this can however be done ; for it was done in the case of Athenians, who " spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear of some new thing." Both the old and the new things of their wild and wanton speculations passed away,... | |
| William Fleming - 1838 - 612 Seiten
...is proved by their own writers. "All the Athenians," says St Luke, "and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing ;" and Demosthenes, their celebrated orator, represents them as spending their time in the... | |
| John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1838 - 520 Seiten
...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.) The character of the people. at Athens struck the sacred writer as unlike that to which... | |
| 1841 - 538 Seiten
...inconstant professor, the mere religious gossip, the man who in hia conduct is like the Athenians, " who spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing," complain that the evidences of true conversion are uncertain and always difficult to attain... | |
| 1838 - 492 Seiten
...remember that in the days of Paul the apostle "all the Athenians and strangers which were at Athens, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing ;" and yet the new things that they heard, all put together, did not teach them to find out... | |
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