...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....