Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 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... The Polytechnic Journal - Page 1711840Full view - About this book
| John Orr (Archdeacon of Ferns.) - Sermons, English - 1749 - 440 pages
...of preventing, or remedying it. ACTS xvn, 22. Then Paul Jlood in the Midfl of Mars-Hill, and faid, ye Men of Athens, I perceive that in all Things ye are too Superftitious. THE Charge which St. Paul hereSERMi advances againft the Athenianst VII. might, perhaps,... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Philosophy - 1754 - 424 pages
...rewarded him for " it." He quotes in the fame place the reproach that St. PAUL made to this people. *< Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all " things ye are too fuperftitious : for as I pafled ** by, and beheld your devotions, I found an ** altar with this infcription,... | |
| Assembly of divines confess. and catech - 1765 - 626 pages
...drink-offering unto that number. m Afts xvii. 22. Then Paul flood in the midft of Mars-hill, and faid, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too fuperftitious. Col. ii. 21. (Touch not, tafte not, handle not: т. 22. Which all are to pcriih with... | |
| Thomas Newton (bp. of Bristol.) - Bible - 1766 - 510 pages
...judge of the world. At the fame time the apoftle retorts the charge upon the Athenians, "(ver. 22.) Te men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too fuperjiitious, SiHTtSMHoi/irtpix, too much addicted to the ivorfoip of demons; and they worshipped... | |
| Geography - 1867 - 964 pages
...storms along its ilipp'ry way, I love thee, au unlovely as thou seem'st, and dreaded as them art ! For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, " To THE UNKKOWH GOD." Whom therefore ye ¡gnorantly worship, him declare I unto you.... | |
| Church of Scotland - Prebyterianism - 1768 - 576 pages
...offering onto that number. in A its xvii. 22. Then Paul (lood in the midft of Mars-hill, and faid, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too iuperftitious. Col. ii. 21. (Touch not, tafte not, handle not : v. 22. Which all are to perim with... | |
| Friend to Truth - 1789 - 370 pages
...aftonifhment of the people, when they faw the faint mounted upon Mars's Hill, and heard him thus declaim— * Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things * ye are tod fuper.ftitious : for as I pafled by and * beheld your devotions : I found an altar with * this... | |
| Richard Graves - English poetry - 1793 - 228 pages
...afks his wife * He alludes to feveral other feftivals, and exemplifies St. Paul's opinion of them. " Ye men of Athens ! I perceive that in all things ye are too fuperftitious." wife whether me has fhut the great cheft, and locked the trunk carefully ; and whether... | |
| Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1793 - 664 pages
...rewarded him *i for it." He quotes in the fame place the reproach that St. P'aul made to this people. " Yc men of " Athens, I perceive, that in all things ye are too " fuperftitious, for as I pafled by, and beheld your " devotions, I found an altar with this infcriptiony... | |
| 1799 - 200 pages
...altar which was dedicated " to the unknown God," — and call to mind his words to the pagans — " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious ;" but in the constancy of the martyr we have proof of his sincerity, and must deplore the fierceness... | |
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