Acts 17:20

ξενίζοντα : rather perhaps startling or bewildering than strange so too in Polyb., cf. 1 Peter 4:12, but see Grimm-Thayer, sub v. Ramsay renders “some things of foreign fashion” as if the words were connected with the opinion that the Apostle was an announcer of foreign gods, cf. also 2Ma 9:6, Diod. Sic., xii., 53. τινα : the rhetorical use of the indefinite τις here strengthening the participle, cf. Acts 8:9; Acts 5:6; Hebrews 10:27. εἰσφ.… ἀκοὰς : Blass suggests a Hebraism, but on the life of Greeks we must look no further than the parallel which the same writer adduces, Soph., Ajax, 147, cf. also Wetstein. The verb is only used here in this sense in N.T. τί ἂν θέλοι, see critical note and Simcox, Language of the N. T., p. 112: “de rebus in aliquem exitum tendentibus,” Grimm; cf. Acts 2:12; so Bethge.