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 I unto you. Once Upon a Time - Page 337by Raymond Barber - 2004 - 346 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...ornaments, or a bride her attire ? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. t Acts xvii. 23. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an ahar with this inscription, TO THE* UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare... | |
| William Haygarth - 1814 - 342 pages
...(which the Athenians call the Areopagus) assaulted it in this ' manner.' 1. 581. The holy Paul.] ' Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill and said,...perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious." s See the celebrated cartoon of Raphael. It is much to be lamented that Raphael never visited Athens.... | |
| 1814 - 570 pages
...of mind, or in eorporeal pleasures, sueh as eating, drinking, and other sensual gratifieations. 23 For, as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inseription./; TO THE UNKNOWN GOi>. Whom, therefore, ye ignorantly worship, him deelare I unto you.... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...(ii. 328) ; we may well refer him to the scene of old when " Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are rather superstitious. For, as I was passing along, and was looking at your objects of worship, I found... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1857 - 1220 pages
...Gentile Polytheists when he said to the men of Athens, — " As I passed by, and beheld your devotion, I found an altar with this inscription : To the Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignomntly worship, him declare I unto you." (Acts xvii. 23.) Thus they worshipped God under some undefined... | |
| Richard Stack - Bible - 1815 - 328 pages
...alone the admission and worship of new gods was legally sanctioned. Here Paul stood up in the midst, and said, « Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious." The word, here translated superstitious, is frequently used in a more favourable sense : and if we... | |
| 1815 - 608 pages
...tell or hear some new thing. 22. ^[ Then Paul stood in the midst of (the supreme court) Mars-hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too much addicted to the fear of demons. 23. For as I passed alongand beheld the things that ye worship,... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 714 pages
...things very religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription : TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom, therefore, ye worship without knowing him, Him do I declare unto you." After which follows the rest of the apostle*s... | |
| 1817 - 842 pages
...their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.) 22 Then Paul stood in thé midst of Mars' Hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in ail things ye are too superstitions. 23 For as I pa&sed by, and beheld your dévotions, I found an... | |
| Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 480 pages
...Paul, in his address to the people of Athens, and adverting to their improper forms of worship, says, " I perceive that in all things, ye are too superstitious...UNKNOWN GOD. Whom, therefore, ye ignorantly worship." Itis alsoworthy of observation, as it will go in support of our proposition, that after the Apostle... | |
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