...therefore what these things mean. ?sRi>tl 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, Yemen of Athens, I perceive...

...XVIII. ALL TONGUE AND EARS. WE read, Acts, xvii. 21, All the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing. How cometh this transposition ? tell and hear ; it should be hear and tell ; they must hear...

...infinite and invisible, that consciousness of « " 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. The whole passage, from the 16th verse to the close of the chapter, is full of striking touches illustrative...

...occupied their attention instead of politics. " 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. In consequence of listening to continued disputes, the Athenians had become a more tolerant people...

...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.) Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed...

...Brazer's Discourse was founded 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 ;" and the subject treated was, The depraved appetite for mental excitement that prevails...

...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.") The Areopagus, or the hill of Mars, was the place where ,the supreme court of justice...

...of human nature, and the attainment of the chief good. The rest of the inhabitants spent theirs " in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." (Acts xvii. 21.) They were all addicted to idleness, and the numerous places of public resort afforded every class the...

...conference. Many spend the best of their time no better than the idolatrous Athenians did their worst, " in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." (Acts xvii. 21.) " What news?" is the most innocent question wherewith (I would I could not say) most men fill up the...

...ftllL\K, AM My dear Young Friends, — It was once said about a people who were named Athenians, ihat they 'spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.' Now, children are very like this race of men. They want to hear and to talk about some...