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For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean."
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Commentators explain that the Greek word for "strange" implies something startling, shocking, and foreign. Paul's message about a crucified and resurrected Savior was not just new; it was completely outside the Athenians' philosophical and religious categories. They were hearing doctrines and about a deity unlike anything they had encountered before.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Certain strange things. Literally, something pertaining to a foreign country or people. Here it means something unusual, remarkab…
For thou bringest certain strange things (ξενιζοντα γαρ τινα εισφερεις). The very verb used by Xenophon (Mem. I) about Socr…
19th Century
Anglican
You bring certain strange things.—The adjective stands for a Greek participle, things that startle, or leave an impression of…
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The Areopagus (meaning “Council of Ares”; GK 740) reaches back to legendary antiquity. Presumably it first met at Athens on the Hill of Ares, north…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For you bring certain strange things to our ears Strange doctrines and strange deities, such as they had never heard…
Athens was then famed for refined learning, philosophy, and the fine arts; yet no one is more childish, superstitious, impious, or credulous than s…
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