Acts 17:21-23
1599 Geneva Bible
21 [a]For all the Athenians and strangers which dwelt there, gave themselves to nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some news.
22 [b]Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ street, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too [c]superstitious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your [d]devotions, I found an altar wherein was written, UNTO THE [e]UNKNOWN GOD. Whom ye then ignorantly worship, him show I unto you.
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- Acts 17:21 The wisdom of man is vanity.
- Acts 17:22 The idolaters themselves minister most strong and forcible arguments against their own superstition.
- Acts 17:22 To stand in too peevish and servile a fear of your gods.
- Acts 17:23 Whatsoever men worship for religion’s sake, that we call devotion.
- Acts 17:23 Pausanias in his Atticis, maketh mention of the altar which the Athenians had dedicated to unknown gods: and Laertius in his Epimenides maketh mention of an altar that had no name entitled.
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