Acts 17:21 (WEB)
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
Fathers and councils · 6
Tertullian
“This admonition about false philosophy he was induced to offer after he had been at Athens, had become acquainted with that loquacious city, and had there had a taste of its huckstering wiseacres and talkers.” — editor's note: Linguatam civitatem. Comp. Acts xvii. 21.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“These charges are now brought against Paul’s follower by the new Stoics and Epicureans, who “spend their time in nothing else,” as the history says of the Athenians, “but either to tell or to hear some new thing.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 21.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“But about these things let the Apostle charge them not to give heed to those who contend about words, and seek nothing else than to tell and hear some new thing.” — editor's note: 2 Tim. ii. 14; Acts xvii. 21.
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Augustine of Hippo
“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
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Basil the Great
“But what will not be said by men who spend their time in nothing else but either ‘to tell or to hear some new thing’?” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 21.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“But since the Sextuses and Pyrrhos, and the antithetic style, like a dire and malignant disease, have infected our churches, and babbling is reputed culture, and, as the book of the Acts says of the Athenians, we spend our time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 21.
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Cross-references · 14
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Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 16.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 3.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.9.
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Cited together in Festal and Personal Letters Personal Letters.17.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 3.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 16.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 3.
Cited together in A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 3.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 16.
Cited together in Against Eunomius IV.9.