...character has received a graphic and pregnant delineation from the pen of the sacre^f' historian : — " For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there,...nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear, some new thing." (Acts xvii. 21.) Demosthenes, in one of his Orations, delivered three centuries earlier,...

...visited by many persons whose curiosity had been powerfully excited, and whose language was, in effect, " Thou bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore what these things mean." The higher classes in the island were, in many instances, led to sanction and help the Mission. From...

...Athenians, and the strangers among them, concerning whom we read in the Acts of the Apostles, that they spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing ; and whether what they hear, and what they report be true, is with them a matter of little...

...to lack no audience there ; for "all the Athenians and the strangers that were there," says Luke, " spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing." This character of them is abundantly sustained by ancient writers. Demosthenes observes,...

...altered to the Athenian Mercury. And the project was founded, as himself tells us, on Acts xvii. 21. " for all the ATHENIANS, and strangers which were there,...in nothing else but either to TELL or to HEAR some new thing." The object of the work was to receive and answer all questions in all faculties and departments...

...Resurrection," they were extremely ready to give him the hearing, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, " May we know what this new doctrine " whereof thou..." bringest certain strange things to our " ears." f But when they heard what these strange things were, BELIEF IN ONE SUPREME AUTHOR AND GOVERNOR OF...

...philosophy. The following verse in the Acts of the Apostles bears testimony to the truth of this remark — " For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to hear or tell some new thing." Of how many of my countrymen does this at present constitute the only...

...brought him unto Areopagus, saying, 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 else, but either...

...bearing a resemblance to the " contemptuous" interrogatory of these heathen sagos at Mars' Hill, " May we know what this new doctrine whereof thou speakest...we would know, therefore, what these things mean." A due portion of rebuke is awarded to " so grave and learned" a person as the Lord High Chancellor...

...epeakest, is ? For thou bringest certain strange tilings to our ears : we would know therefore what these I things mean. (For all the Athenians, and strangers...their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hearsomenew thing, Acts xviii. 18—21. 2 Cor. IT. 5. See also on Matt. sx. ver. 28. clause 3. bSee...