 | John Young (M.A.) - 1837 - 248 페이지
...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. Any new circumstance,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1837 - 720 페이지
...which were there [ie such as resided there for education, or out of love for the Athenian manners], spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. Now had the writer understood the citation to be of the criminal form, he would have given... | |
 | Robert Philip - 1837 - 348 페이지
...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,... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1838 - 520 페이지
...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...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 he was accustomed... | |
 | Daniel Parsons - 1838 - 412 페이지
...have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of Him 261 SERMON XVI. NOVELTIES. ACTS xvii. 21. The Athenians and strangers which were there spent...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing 282 SERMON XVII. PRACTICAL BELIEF. S. JAMKS ii. 19, 20. Thou believest that there is one... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 612 페이지
...sacred historian is curious, and 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... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1838 - 516 페이지
...all the streets, and all assemblies, were full of Jupiter." The sacred historian informs us, that " all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or hear some new thing." Demosthenes gives the same account of the Athenians. In one of his... | |
 | 1838 - 492 페이지
...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... | |
 | 1841 - 538 페이지
...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... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1838 - 702 페이지
...orators, in witnessing trials of skill, and as St. Luke in the Acts observes, " spending their time in nothing else but either to tell, or to hear, some new thing." The Barathrum was a public pit in the city, into which condemned criminals were thrown and left to perish.... | |
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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... 
