...faithful description given both by Demosthenes and the apostle Paul, of their spending their time in "nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing," Acts xvii. 21. Again, the spirit of the heathen religion not only withheld . truth from the people, and countenanced...

...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. ) 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Te men of Athens, I perceive that...

...would know therefore what these things mean. 2 1 (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.) >2£ Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive...

...your own affairs, ' and to work with your own hands,2 as we commanded you. f ers ivhicb were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear ionic new thing. Whitby thinks the apostle also meant by this injunction, to exhort the ThessaJonians...

...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/cm, he would have given...

...find the same inquisitive disposition as in ancient Athens: "All the Athenians," says St. Luke, *' spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing."* As to the Turks, they exclaimed: transouse! Effendi! and continued to smoke their pipes,...

...for no novel object. Those who — like the Athenians and the strangers in Athens, of Paul's day, who spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing — have come to hear of novelties, will not find the speakers treat as novelties the Martyrs...

...would know therefore what 21 these things mean. (For all the Athenians and strangers who were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, * The Epieureans supposed that God was indifferent...

...find the same inquisitive disposition as in ancient Athens : " All the Athenians," says St. Luke, " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing."* As to the Turks, they exclaimed : Fransouse! Effendi! and continued to smoke their pipes,...

...unto them Jesus, and the resurreetion. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers, whieh were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus,** saying, May we know what this new...