 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 Presbyterian Quarterly and Princeton Review - Stran 4431875Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1829 - 444 strani
...hringest 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, hut either to tell, orto hear some new thing.) g 22 T Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and... | |
 | 1829 - 446 strani
...giving ear to fables." They were no wiser in the days of St. Paul, who tells us, " That the Athenians spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." According to the accounts of travellers, they are still of the same disposition. THE DOMESTIC... | |
 | 1837 - 504 strani
...to hear him. Aftev stating that " they took" Paul, " and brought him unto Areopagus," he says, " For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent...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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 544 strani
...all our time and care. It was the vice of the Athenians, " for' all the Athenians and strangers that were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing" (Acts xvii. 2 1) ; yea, novelty of doctrine and religion, and teachers, is a snare and bait... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 548 strani
...all our time and care. It was the vice of the Athenians, " for all the Athenians and k strangers that were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing" (Acts xvii. 21); yea, novelty of doctrine and religion, and teachers, is a snare and bait... | |
 | Daniel Appleton White - 1830 - 72 strani
...intellectual being ; at the best, never rising above that of the idlers whom Paul found at Athens, " who spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." But the pleasures, which flow from the pursuit and acquisition of real knowledge, and the... | |
 | Irish pulpit - 1831 - 372 strani
...patience, interest, and attention. Curiosity was the prevailing character of the Athenians — " For all the Athenians and strangers which were there,...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." There was much in all this to satisfy their curiosity, and not a great deal, at first view,... | |
 | James Hough - 1832 - 164 strani
...in a state of excitement. They are little better than the sauntering philosophers of Athens, who " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing " (Acts xvii. 21). Such persons are perpetually shifting their patronage from one society... | |
 | 1833 - 82 strani
...bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there,...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 Athens, I perceive that... | |
 | John Kershaw Craig - 1833 - 328 strani
...God, is given of all the people. " All the Athenians, and all the strangers which were in the city, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Behold, I say, in that description the universal condition of fallen nature ! The heart... | |
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