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Verse Acts 17:20. _THOU BRINGEST - STRANGE THINGS TO OUR EARS_] The
doctrine of the apostles was different from any they had ever heard:
it was wholly spiritual and divine; thus it was _strange_: it...
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CERTAIN STRANGE THINGS - Literally, something pertaining to a foreign
country or people. Here it means something unusual or remarkable -
something different from what they had been accustomed to hear...
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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...
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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...
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IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...
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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...
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STRANGE. Greek. _xenizo,_ to treat as _xenos_ (Acts 17:18), hence to
lodge. See Acts 10:6; Acts 10:18; Acts 10:23;...
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_strange things_ The original is not an adjective, but a participle,
and signifies "something which strikes a person as strange." So that
the effect is indicated which had been produced on the minds o...
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_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...
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ΞΕΝΊΖΟΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΞΕΝΊΖΩ (G3579)
принимать как гостя, развлекать,
поражаться или удивляться чему-л.
новому или странному. Part, в роли _subst._,
"удивительные вещи" (BAGD).
ΕΙΣΦΈΡΕΙΣ _...
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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 -...
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See notes on verse 19...
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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know
therefore what these things mean.
FOR THOU BRINGEST CERTAIN STRANGE THINGS, [ xenizonta (G3579) tina
(G5100)] - 'certain foreign-...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THOU BRINGEST CERTAIN STRANGE THINGS. — The adjective stands for a
Greek participle, _things that startle,_ or _leave an impression of
strangeness.
_...
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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...
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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...
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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 we...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_‘STRANGE THINGS’_
‘Thou bringest certain strange things to our ears.’
Acts 17:20
When St. Paul was speaking to the bystanders in the agora, the
learned men of the Stoics and Epicureans sects, obse...
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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...
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FOR THOU BRINGEST CERTAIN STRANGE THINGS TO OUR EARS,.... Strange
doctrines and strange deities, such as they had never heard of before:
WE WOULD KNOW THEREFORE WHAT THESE THINGS MEAN; they desire he...
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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know
therefore what these things mean.
Ver. 20. _For thou bringest certain strange things_] Or, new, never
heard of, ξενιζοντα. Yet now...
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_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...
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FOR THOU BRINGEST CERTAIN STRANGE THINGS TO OUR EARS; WE WOULD KNOW,
THEREFORE, WHAT THESE THINGS MEAN....
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PAUL IN ATHENS.
The arrival and the first discussions:...
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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...
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FOR YOU ARE BRINGING SOME STRANGE THINGS TO OUR EARS. THEREFORE WE
WANT TO KNOW WHAT THESE THINGS MEAN. "
1. Thayer explains the meaning of "strange" things that they were
hearing. The word "strange...
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"For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know
therefore what these things mean. (Now all the Athenians and the
strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but
e...
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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...
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The greatest objection which these men had against the gospel was,
that it was strange and new. That it is not new was apparent, it
having been in the Old Testament (as the ripe fruit is in the blosso...
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Acts 17:20 For G1063 bringing G1533 (G5719) some G5100 things G3579
(G5723) to G1519 our G2257 ears...
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‘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...
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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...
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FOR THOU BRINGEST CERTAIN STRANGE THINGS
(ξενιζοντα γαρ τινα εισφερεις). The very verb
used by Xenophon (_Mem_. I) about Socrates. Ξενιζοντα is
present active neuter plural participle of ξενιζω and...
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Acts 17:20
God of the Times of Ignorance.
Notice three general principles which we shall do well to have clearly
in mind always when we read our Bibles.
I. There is a progress in the Divine revelati...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Peter
4:4;...
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Strange [ξ ε ν ι ζ ο ν τ α]. A participle : surprising.
Compare 1 Peter 4:4; 1 Peter 4:12....