...something new. It was so in the days of the Apostles ; the people were desirous to hear something new. "For all the Athenians and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to te«ll or hear some new thing." If we inquire into the cause of this natural disposition, almost...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...were new, they would be well received. For the Athenians, as we learn from the highest authority, " spent their " time in nothing else but either to tell or " to hear some new thing."* When therefore St. Paul came to Athens, and preached to that celebrated school of philosophy...

...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,...nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) 22 If Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive...

...strange things to our Athens, ^dwf&n ears : we would know therefore what these things mean. ol. ' 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there,...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, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that...

...bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For d, I know that ye all, among whom I ha»e gone preaching the kingdom of God. new thing.) 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that...

...bringest certain strange things to our ears : we would know therefore, what these things mean. (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there,...nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thingd)." To this kind of professors, the greatest truths grow out of fashion, and they grow weary...