 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 714 sider
...would know, therefore, what these 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.) Paul, therefore, standing up in the midst of the Areopagus, said : Ye men of Athens, I... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1817 - 746 sider
...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... | |
 | Joseph Dennie - 1817 - 190 sider
...our wealth and splendour. ON NEWSMONGERS. " 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."—Actt xvii. 21. ATHENS, when visited by the apostle, was literally a barber's shop. The... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1817 - 474 sider
...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... | |
 | 1817 - 842 sider
...know therefore what thèse things mean. 21 (For ail thé Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time 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... | |
 | 1854 - 1112 sider
...was sure to lack no audience there ; for "all the Athenians and the strangers that were there," says Luke, " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." This character of them is abundantly sustained by ancient writers. Demosthenes observes,... | |
 | Brian Hill - 1822 - 454 sider
...Athenians, and the strangers among them, concerning whom we read in the Acts of the Apostles, that they spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing ; and whether what they hear, and what they report be true, is with them a matter of little... | |
 | 1847 - 648 sider
...from the pen of the sacre^f' historian : — " 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." (Acts xvii. 21.) Demosthenes, in one of his Orations, delivered three centuries earlier,... | |
 | Adam Clarke - 1824 - 466 sider
...founded, as himself tells us, on Acts xvii. 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 object of the work was to receive and answer all questions in all faculties and departments... | |
 | Beilby Porteus - 1823 - 486 sider
...were new, they would be well 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... | |
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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... 
