while Paul waited in Athens, his spirit was provoked within him seeing the city wholly given to idolatry.
So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and pious, and in the street every day with those who concurred.
And certain philosophers of the Epicurean and Stoic with him, and some said, What will this babbler want to say? And another, seems to be advocating for new gods, because he was preaching the gospel of Jesus, and resurrection.
And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "We know what this new teaching that mean? For
bring our hearing strange things. We therefore know what this means.
(For all the Athenians and the foreigners living there, nothing else is interested but telling or hearing something new.) Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Men of Athens, ye see that in every very religious, for going on and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. When you worship, then, without knowing, Him I proclaim.
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