Acts 17:18 (WEB)
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
Fathers and councils · 9
Gregory of Nyssa
“Such a reproach Paul also once incurred with the Athenians, being charged therewith by them as “a setter forth of strange gods,” when he was reproving the wandering among their gods of those who were mad in their idolatry, and was leading them to the truth, preaching the resurrection by the Son.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 18.
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Augustine of Hippo
“He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods:” this the Athenians; but the Ephesians, with what tumult would they have slain the Apostles, when in the theatre, for their goddess Diana, they made such an uproar, as to be shouting, “Great is Diana of the Ephesians!”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 18.
Read the whole comment“The Athenians wondered, when the Apostle Paul spake of the resurrection of the dead, and thought that he spake but fables.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 18, 32.
Read the whole comment“Evidently this did come to pass: for out of Asaph were chosen they that should go to the Gentiles and preach Christ, and should have it said to them, “Who is this proclaimer of new demons?”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 18. E.V. “strange gods.”
Read the whole comment“For at Athens, because he had there found most studious inquirers of things, it is thus written of him: “He disputed therefore with the Jews in the synagogue, and with the Gentile inhabitants in the market every day to those who were there.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 17, 18, 21
Read the whole comment“For as they heard the word from him, they said, “Who is this sower of words?”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 18. σπερμολόγος.
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Ambrose of Milan
“And others said, He seemeth to be a setter forth of new gods.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 18.
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Gregory the Great
“Whence also by the wise of this world the excellent preacher was called a sower of words (seminiverbius) (Acts xvii. 18).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“…men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ;” branding not all philosophy, but the Epicurean, which Paul mentions in the Acts of the Apostles, which abolishes providence and deifies pleasure, and whatever other philosophy honours the elements, but places not over them the efficient cause, nor…” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 18.
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Cross-references · 6
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 21.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 21.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.9.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 21.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.9.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.9.