Acts 17:19 And G5037 took G1949 (G5637) him G846 brought G71 (G5627) to G1909 Areopagus G697 saying G3004 (G5723) May G1410 (G5736) know G1097 (G5629) what G5101 this G3778 new G2537 doctrine G1322 which G5259 you G4675 speak G2980 (G5746)
Areopagus - or, Mars'-hill, Acts 17:22 "It was the highest court in Athens."
May - Acts 17:20, Acts 24:24, Acts 25:22, Acts 26:1; Matthew 10:18
new - Mark 1:27; John 13:34; 1 John 2:7-8
Doctrine - 3's H30036
ACTS 17:19 evpilabo,menoi, te auvtou/ The Western text embroiders the sentence by prefixing meta. de. h`me,raj tina.j evpilabo,menoi auvtou/ (D syrh) and by adding punqano,menoi kai, after Pa,gon (D;...
Verse Acts 17:19. _THEY TOOK HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM UNTO AREOPAGUS_] The Areopagus was a _hill_ not far from the _Acropolis_, already described, where the supreme court of justice was held; one of the...
AND BROUGHT HIM UNTO AREOPAGUS - Margin, or “Mars’ hill.” This was the place or court in which the Areopagites, the celebrated supreme judges of Athens, assembled. It was on a hill almost in the middl...
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 AT ATHENS. Athens was at this time no longer the intellectual centre of the world, nor the best of the leading schools of philosophy; but the fame of the city drew many to it, and a visit to Athe...
When Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was deeply vexed as he saw the whole city full of idols. He debated with the Jews and the worshippers in the synagogue and every day he talked in t...
IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...
TOOK. Greek. _epilambanomai._ See note on Acts 9:27; Acts 23:19. AREOPAGUS. the hill of Mars, or the Martian hill. Greek. _Areios pagoa._ Compare Acts 17:22. Where the great council of the Athenians...
_And they took him_ Better, _took_ HOLD OF _him_. (As _R. V._) But there is no need to suppose that any violence was used or intended. The same verb is used often of taking by the hand to aid or prote...
PAUL, PROVOKED BY THE PREVALENCE OF IDOLATRY AT ATHENS, FIRST ADDRESSES THE JEWS AND THEN THE GENTILES. SOME OF THE PHILOSOPHERS QUESTION HIM ON HIS TEACHING, AND BRING HIM TO THE AREOPAGUS THAT THEY...
ἘΠΙΛΑΒΌΜΕΝΟΊ ΤΕ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂, _and they took hold of him and_, &c. There is no need to suppose that any violence was used or intended. The same verb is used often of taking by the hand to aid or protect (s...
_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...
ΈΠΙΛΑΒΌΜΕΝΟΙ _aor. med. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΈΠΙΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G1949) держаться за что-л. "ΑΡΕΙΟΣ ΠΆΓΟΣ (G697) Ареопаг, или холм Ареса (Марсов холм). Это может быть либо географическое название, либо место...
THEY BROUGHT HIM UNTO AREOPAGUS,— The original word is the same with that rendered _Mars-hill,_ Acts 17:22. The name of this senate was taken from the place in which it was assembled, being a hill not...
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 -...
19-21. Notwithstanding the contempt with which Paul was regarded by some of his hearers, he succeeded in arresting the serious attention of a few. (19) "_And they took him and led him to the Areopagus...
And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? AND THEY TOOK HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM UNTO AREOPAGUS - that is, 'Mars' hill;'...
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...
17:19 Areopagus, (b-11) i.e. 'the hill of Mars.' The tribunal which watched over the morals of the Athenians, and saw that due honour was paid to the gods, held its sessions on Areopagus and was so de...
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...
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...
AND THEY TOOK HIM, etc.] Some translate, 'And they arrested him and brought him before the court of the Areopagus.' But there is no indication in St. Paul's speech that he was on his trial, or that an...
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...
THEY TOOK HIM, AND BROUGHT HIM UNTO AREOPAGUS. — The name may stand either for the Hill of Mars, simply as a locality, or for the Court which sat there, and was known as the Court of the Areopagus, an...
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...
ἐπιλαβ.: as to whether we regard this as done with hostile intent, or not, will depend upon the view taken of the meaning of the Areopagus. If the latter means “the Hill of Mars,” to which the Apostle...
STIRRED BY IDOLATRY Acts 17:13 From the first, the gospel was baptized in the fire of persecution. How unutterable the loneliness and sorrow of the Apostle as he reached Athens! Did doubt ever enter...
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 and the Athenian Philosophers While he waited, Paul apparently toured the city and discovered it was totally given over to idolatry. This provoked, or one might say angered, him. He went to the s...
And they took him, and brought him unto (k) Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, [is]? (k) This was a place called, as one would say, Mars hill, where the jud...
To the Areopagus. In this place sat the Athenian judges: but some think that by this word may be here signified, some large hall or court, joining to the Areopagus, where all sorts of people met. (Wit...
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...
They now lead Paul up to the summit of the Areopagus, that he may stand before that grave assembly of philosophers, orators, poets, statesmen, warriors and sages, recognized by the people as the legit...
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry. (17) Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout p...
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...
− 19._They brought him to Mars’ Street. _Though this verse a place appointed for judgment, yet Luke doth not mean that Paul was brought before the seat of the judges, that he might plead his cause bef...
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...
AND THEY TOOK HIM,.... Not that they laid hands on him, and carried him away by violence, as a derider of their gods, and an introducer of new ones, in order to punish him; but they invited him to go...
And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, _is_ ? Ver. 19. _Brought him unto Areopagus_] A cruel court where Socrates lost h...
_And_ The crowd increasing to a greater number than could conveniently hear him, in the place where they then were; _they took and brought him unto Areopagus_ Or, _the hill of Mars_, dedicated to Mars...
AREOPAGUS; that is, as the word means, Mars-hill; a rocky height in Athens, opposite the western end of the Acropolis, where the highest Athenian court was held....
PAUL IN ATHENS. The arrival and the first discussions:...
AND THEY TOOK HIM AND BROUGHT HIM UNTO AREOPAGUS, SAYING, MAY WE KNOW WHAT THIS NEW DOCTRINE, WHEREOF THOU SPEAKEST, IS?...
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...
AND THEY TOOK HIM AND BROUGHT HIM TO THE AREOPAGUS, SAYING, " MAY WE KNOW WHAT THIS NEW DOCTRINE _IS_ OF WHICH YOU SPEAK? 1. Paul is brought to the Areopagus. This is the Greek word for Mar's Hill. ...
AREOPAGUS: Or, Mars hill. It was the highest court in Athens...
"And they took hold of him, and brought him unto the Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by thee?"Took hold of him" Not in. hostile sense, but rather, escorted hi...
16-21 Athens was then famed for polite learning, philosophy, and the fine arts; but none are more childish and superstitious, more impious, or more credulous, than some persons, deemed eminent for le...
The city of Athens was divided into five wards, or parts; one of which was called AREOPAGUS, from the temple of Mars, which stood upon a hill in it: nigh unto which temple, or in some part of it, was...
19-21. Notwithstanding the contempt with which Paul was regarded by some of his hearers, he succeeded in arresting the serious attention of a few. (19) "_ And they took him and led him to the Areopagu...
‘And they took hold of him, and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which is spoken by you? For you are bringing certain strange things to our ears. We would...
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 17:19. BROUGHT HIM UNTO AREOPAGUS. On this spot, writes Howson _(St. Paul), ‘_ a long series of awful causes connected with crime and religion had been determined, beginning with the legendary tr...
AND THEY TOOK HOLD OF HIM (επιλαβομενο δε αυτου). Second aorist middle participle of επιλαμβανω, old verb, but in the N.T. only in the middle, here with the genitive αυτου to lay hold of, but with n...
AREOPAGUS Mars' hill....
Acts 17:19 I. It may throw a fresh light on the study of the Bible if you look at it with this thought of the contrast and contest between religion and revelation. The Old Testament is not chiefly a r...
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...
SO THEY TOOK PAUL. _Areopagus_ was the name of both the hill and the group which met there. [Mars-hill is a Latin name applied to it.] This group compared to our Supreme Court, Remember that Athens wa...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:19 The AREOPAGUS is the “hill of Ares” (named after the Greek god of war; also called Mars Hill). The Court of the Areopagus was a long-established body with extensive authority o...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 17:16. ATHENS.—Described by Milton (_Paradise Regained_, Acts 4:20) as “the eye of Greece,” and “the mother of arts and eloquence.” The capital of Attica was situated about fiv...
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 John 2:7; 1 John 2:8; Acts 17:20; Acts 17:22; Acts 24:24;...
Areopagus. The Hill of Mars : the seat of the ancient and venerable Athenian court which decided the most solemn questions connected with religion. Socrates was arraigned and condemned here on the cha...
The Areopagus, or hill of Mars, (dedicated to Mars, the heathen god of war,) was the place where the Athenians held their supreme court of judicature. But it does not appear he was carried thither as...