 | Charlotte Brontë - 1995 - 866 sider
...of life of the inhabitants of Mayfair, but I rather suspect them of resembling the old Athenians who spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.8 Who invents the new things for their consumption? Who manufactures fictions to supply their... | |
 | Barbara M. Benedict - 2001 - 338 sider
...no end."7 Also commonly cited was Acts 17:2 1 : "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," which Dunton triumphantly cites as praise in The Athenian Mercury. These discussions condemn... | |
 | Robin Sampson - 2009 - 316 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.) Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that... | |
 | John Phillips - 2001 - 538 sider
...GREAT INTELLECTUAL PHILANDERING OF ATHENS (17:21) (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.) There were many in Athens who spent their leisure hours just hanging around hoping for... | |
 | Blair Hoxby - 2008 - 332 sider
...also recalls Paul's sermon at Areopagus, where "all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." When Paul finished, some men mocked him, others wished to hear him speak on another occasion,... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - 2003 - 130 sider
...delivers a jab at the philosophy department at the University of Athens. All the learned johnnies there "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing" (Acts 17:21). On another occasion, Luke reports in a very dry manner about how Sosthenes... | |
 | Damon Greenidge - 2003 - 209 sider
...father; he is our God and Father. Those Epicureans, and Stoicks who were Athenians, and as the Bible says "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing," again, they knew Paul spoke of more than one god, but was praising the God, Father Lord... | |
 | Tex Ford - 2003 - 150 sider
...The Apostle Paul, faced with preaching the gospel to the Athenians, was conscious that the Athenians "spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some ngw thing (emphasis is mine)." This is recorded in chapter 17 of the book of Acts. Like the Athenians,... | |
 | John Phillips - 2003 - 476 sider
...we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?" Luke commented that those philosophers "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing." Their insincerity was exposed when a little later they mocked at Paul. Anyone who has been... | |
 | John Phillips - 2003 - 250 sider
...be endearing. After all, it was the worldly-wise, sophisticated Greek philosophers on Mar's Hill who "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing" (Acts 17:21). Well, Paul had something new and notable to tell them, and they laughed him... | |
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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... 
