...giving ear to fables." They were no wiser in the days of St. Paul, who tells us, " That the Athenians spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." According to the accounts of travellers, they are still of the same disposition. THE DOMESTIC...

...excited to hear him. Aftev stating that " they took" Paul, " and brought him unto Areopagus," he says, " For all the Athenians and strangers which were there...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Here we have a clew to the object of the scene. Not only the Athenians, but the numerous...

...all our time and care. It was the vice of the Athenians, " 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" (Acts xvii. 2 1) ; yea, novelty of doctrine and religion, and teachers, is a snare and bait...

...all our time and care. It was the vice of the Athenians, " for all the Athenians and k strangers that were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing" (Acts xvii. 21); yea, novelty of doctrine and religion, and teachers, is a snare and bait...

...intellectual being ; at the best, never rising above that of the idlers whom Paul found at Athens, " who spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." But the pleasures, which flow from the pursuit and acquisition of real knowledge, and the...

...with patience, interest, and attention. Curiosity was the prevailing character of the Athenians — " For all the Athenians and strangers which were there,...in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." There was much in all this to satisfy their curiosity, and not a great deal, at first view,...

...in a state of excitement. They are little better than the sauntering philosophers of Athens, who " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing " (Acts xvii. 21). Such persons are perpetually shifting their patronage from one society...

...thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there,...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...

...God, is given of all the people. " All the Athenians, and all the strangers which were in the city, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Behold, I say, in that description the universal condition of fallen nature ! The heart...

...of spirit which impels to an unhealthful pursuit after novelties, like the Athenians of old, who " spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." Let us beware of those excitable affections, wont to be stirred up by inferior considerations,...