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Acts 17:23
For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.
For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To the Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.
Verse Acts 17:23. _BEHELD YOUR DEVOTIONS_] σεβασματα, _The objects of your_ _worship_; the different _images_ of their gods which they held in religious veneration, sacrificial instruments, altars, c....
FOR AS I PASSED BY - Greek: “For I, coming through, and seeing, etc.” AND BEHELD - Diligently contemplated; attentively considered ἀναθεωρῶν anatheōrōn. The worship of an idolatrous people will b...
CHAPTER 17 _ 1. The Gospel in Thessalonica (Acts 17:1)._ 2. The Gospel in Beroea (Acts 17:10). 3. Paul in Athens (Acts 17:15). Three cities in which the Gospel is next preached are before us in thi...
PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE AREOPAGUS. He opens with a compliment to the religiosity of the Athenians. He has walked up and down the city and marked the many objects of worship; he has also found an altar wi...
Paul stood up in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I see that in all things you are as superstitious as possible. As I came through your city and as I saw the objects of your worshi...
IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...
BEHELD. Greek. _anatheoreo._ App-133. DEVOTIONS. the objects of your worship. Greek. _sebasma._ Only here and 2 Thessalonians 2:4. Compare _sebomai._ App-137. ALTAR. Greek. _bomos._ Only here. Add ...
_For as I passed by_( ALONG)] The word refers to the whole of the Apostle's walk about the city. _and beheld your devotions_ Better, " AND NOTICED THE OBJECTS OF YOUR WORSHIP." (With _R. V._) The verb...
Speech of St Paul at Athens Taking notice of the extreme religious scrupulousness, which had led the Athenians to raise an altar to an unknown God, the Apostle declares to them the God whom alone the...
SPEECH OF ST PAUL AT ATHENS Taking notice of the extreme religious scrupulousness which had led the Athenians to raiso an altar to an unknown God, the Apostle declares to them the God whom alone they...
Ὃ for ὅν, ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ for τοῦτον with אABD. _Vulg_. ‘Quod … hoc.’ 23. ΔΙΕΡΧΌΜΕΝΟΣ ΓΆΡ, _for as I passed along_, through your streets and squares. ΚΑῚ�, _and noticed the objects of your worship_, ἀναθεωρέ...
_AN ALTAR TO AN UNKNOWN GOD ACTS 17:16-23:_ While Paul waited for his co-workers his spirit was stirred by all the idolatry in Athens. He saw a city "full of idols." Paul had discussions, (1) in the S...
ΔΙΕΡΧΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΔΙΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1330) проходить через. ΓΆΡ ибо, вводит объяснение предыдущего утверждения, ΆΝΑΘΕΩΡΏΝ _praes. part. (temp.) от_ ΆΝΑΘΕΩΡΈΩ (G333) смотреть...
AND BEHELD YOUR DEVOTIONS,— Σεβασματα ;—_the objects,_ and _instruments of your worship._ This is the proper signification of the original, which has no English word exactly corresponding to it. (Comp...
IN ATHENS. Acts 17:14 b - Acts 17:34. a. The brethren from Berea go with Paul as far as Athens and take back a command for the coming of Silas and Timothy. Acts 17:14 b -...
See notes on verse 22...
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. FOR AS I PASSED BY, AND BEHELD...
19 The hill called the Areopagus (Latin, Mars' Hill), just a few steps above the Market Place, was a most fitting forum for the folly of God to defeat the wisdom of the world. At Rome Paul's weakness...
PAUL'S SPEECH. It is discreet and to the point. It deals not with the OT., with which his hearers were unacquainted, but with the truths of natural religion, many of which were understood (though only...
ATHENS. After leaving Berœa, St. Paul entered the Roman province of Achaia, which was at this time a senatorian province, governed by a proconsul, and of which the capital was Corinth. He first visite...
SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED) 1-15. Thessalonica and Berœa. 1. Amphipolis] 32 m. W. of Philippi. APOLLONIA] 30 m. W. of Amphipolis. THESSALONICA] now Salonika, was the capital of the provin...
YOUR DEVOTIONS] RV 'the objects of your worship.' TO THE UNKNOWN GOD] RV 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' Several ancient writers mention such altars. Pausanias speaks of 'altars of known (lit. 'named') and unkno...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 17 PAUL AND SILAS GO TO THESSALONICA, 17:1-4 V1 Paul and Silas travelled through Amphipolis and Apollonia. They came to Thessalonica. There was...
I PERCEIVE THAT IN ALL THINGS YE ARE TOO SUPERSTITIOUS. — Better, _I observe you as being in all things more fearful of the gods than others._ It is not easy to express the exact force of the Greek ad...
CHAPTER 12 ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. Acts 16:29; Acts 17:1; Acts 17:10 TROAS was at this time the termination of St. Paul's Asiatic travels. He had passed diagonally right through Asia Minor, followin...
CHAPTER 12 ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. Acts 16:29; Acts 17:1; Acts 17:10 TROAS was at this time the termination of St. Paul's Asiatic travels. He had passed diagonally right through Asia Minor, followin...
διερχόμενος γὰρ : “for as I passed along,” R.V., through the streets, or perhaps “was wandering through” Renan has _passant dans vos rues_, see also on Acts 17:16 above, and also on Acts 8:40. A.V., “...
THE ONE LIVING AND TRUE GOD Acts 17:22 The gospel preacher must avail himself of any circumstance in his surroundings that will enable him to arrest the attention of his audience. He must meet them...
At Thessalonica and Berea the apostle visited the synagogues, and again in each case persecution arose from the Jews. A sentence which fell from the lips of the leader of the mob shows with what rapid...
Paul's Sermon on Mars Hill The apostle began his sermon by noting that they were very religious, worshipping idols devoted to all types of gods, even an unknown God. Paul seized upon their recognition...
For as I passed by, and beheld your (m) devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE (n) UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. (m) Whatever men worsh...
It may be asked, why they had not implicit faith, worshipping the true, though unknown, God?[5] 1st. because the worship of the true God can never exist with the worship of idols; 2nd. because an _exp...
PAUL AT ATHENS 16-33. While Timothy and Silas prosecute the work in the upper country, Paul and Luke spend the time at Athens, the world's grand emporium of science, literature, philosophy, and idolat...
_“For going through and seeing your devotions_ [_i. e_., temple, shrines, altars and statues], _I also found an altar on which was superscribed, ‘To the Unknown God.' Therefore, whom you ignorantly wo...
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. (23) For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar wit...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
_‘THE UNKNOWN GOD’_ ‘The unknown God.’ Acts 17:23 Let us pass from the streets of ancient Athens to the streets, and houses, and churches of modern England. What lessons have we brought with us? Th...
− 23._To the unknown God. _I can well grant that this altar was dedicated to all strange gods; yet I cannot yield to that which Jerome saith, that Paul did, by a certain holy wiliness, attribute that...
In the last case it was the power exercised by the enemy over the passions of the Gentiles that caused the persecution of the apostles: at Thessalonica we again find the old and universal enmity of th...
FOR AS I PASSED BY,.... Or "through"; that is, through the city of Athens: AND BEHELD YOUR DEVOTIONS; not so much their acts of worship and religion, as the gods which they worshipped; in which sense...
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Ver. 23. _I found an altar_] A...
_As I passed by_ Or, _passed along_ the streets of your city; _and beheld your devotions_ Greek, τα σεβασματα υμων, _the objects of your worship, I found an altar with this inscription_, TO THE UNKNOW...
PASSED BY; passed through the city, and beheld the sacred places and objects. TO THE UNKNOWN GOD; or, as the inscription may also be rendered, To an unknown God. They not only worshipped all the gods...
From Philippi Paul and his company travelled westward in Greece to Thessalonica (also in Macedonia). A Jewish synagogue being there, they attended this for three sabbath days, reasoning with the Jews...
FOR AS I WAS PASSING THROUGH AND CONSIDERING THE OBJECTS OF YOUR WORSHIP, I EVEN FOUND AN ALTAR WITH THIS INSCRIPTION: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. THEREFORE, THE ONE WHOM YOU WORSHIP WITHOUT KNOWING, HIM I PR...
DEVOTIONS: Or, gods that you worship, 2 Thessalonians 2:4...
"For as. passed along, and observed the objects of your worship,. found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this. set forth unto you"For as....
22-31 Here we have a sermon to heathens, who worshipped false gods, and were without the true God in the world; and to them the scope of the discourse was different from what the apostle preached to...
DEVOTIONS; any thing unto which Divine worship and honour is given. TO THE UNKNOWN GOD: it is storied, that in a plague time, when the Athenians had wearied themselves with their supplications unto al...
Tertullian Ad Nationes Book II such folly as the Athenians did; for at Athens there was an altar with this inscription: "To The Unknown Gods."[152] Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book VII An...
Acts 17:23 for G1063 through G1330 (G5740) and G2532 considering G333 (G5723) your G5216 worship G4574...
‘And Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, in all things, I perceive that you are very religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I f...
EFFECTIVE MINISTRY IN ATHENS (17:15-34). His Berean guides saw Paul safely to Athens. This had not been where he was originally aiming for. After Thessalonica his intention had probably been to procee...
Acts 17:23. FOR AS I PASSED BY, AND BEHELD YOUR DEVOTIONS. This should be rendered, ‘and beheld the things that you worship.' It does not refer to their devotions, or acts of worship, but to their tem...
FOR (γαρ). Paul gives an illustration of their religiousness from his own experiences in their city.THE OBJECTS OF YOUR WORSHIP (τα σεβασματα υμων). Late word from σεβαζομα, to worship. In N T. on...
Acts 17:23 Paul declared to the Athenians the unknown God: (1) in His relation to nature, (2) in His relation to man. I. God in relation to nature. (1) The Apostle begins by affirming that God made t...
CONTENTS: Founding of church at Thessalonica and the Jewish opposition. Paul and Silas at Berea. Paul at Athens and the sermon from Mars' hill. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Silas, Jason, Caesar, philoso...
Acts 17:1. _When they had passed through Amphipolis._ Boiste adds the Roman name _Emboli._ It was built by Simon, the Athenian commander. It stood on an island formed in the river Strymon, and was cal...
PAUL STOOD UP. Many seem to think Paul made a great mistake in what he said to this group, and see a resolve never to repeat this error in what he says in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. But this cannot be! Paul...
_And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athena _ PAUL AT ATHENS I. The place which the apostle visited. Athens. II. The feelings of which he was the subject. Not of admiration at the masterp...
_I found an altar with this inscription, To the unknown God._ Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you. BEFORE THE ALTAR OF THE UNKNOWN GOD 1. What was there in Athens to which P...
_Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill._ NOVELTY ATTRACTIVE Yes, the people gathered in crowds round the statue, and looked at it again and again. It was not the finest work of art in the city,...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:23 TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. In the second century A.D., the Greek geographer Pausanias recorded “altars of the gods named Unknown” in Athens and at Olympia. An inscription found at Per...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:22 Paul’s Areopagus address is the prime example in Acts 1:1 of preaching to Gentiles who have no knowledge of the OT....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 17:22. TOO SUPERSTITIONS.—Somewhat superstitious (R.V.); better, _more god-fearing_, more religious (_sc._, than others)—_i.e._, unusually religious; though the word has both...
EXPOSITION ACTS 17:1 AMPHIPOLIS. This was the ancient capital of that division of Macedonia (Macedonia Prima); see Acts 16:12, note. It was situated on the Via Egnatia, thirty-four miles southwest f...
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews (Acts 17:1): Now Luke passes that off in one verse. From Philippi to Amph...
1 Corinthians 1:21; 1 Corinthians 8:5; 1 John 5:20; 1 Timothy 1:17;...
As I passed by [δ ι ε ρ χ ο. μ ε ν ο ς]. More strictly, "passing through [δ ι α] " your city, or your streets. Beheld [α ν α θ ε ω ρ ω ν]. Only here and Hebrews 13:7. Rev :, much better, observed. Th...
I found an altar — Some suppose this was set up by Socrates, to express in a covert way his devotion to the only true God, while he derided the plurality of the heathen gods, for which he was condemne...