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Acts 17:22 (WEB)
Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

Fathers and councils · 4

Theodoret of Cyrus, Ecclesiastical History IV.19Book IV
“So the martyrs sailed off for Heliopolis, where every man is given over to superstition, where flourish the devil’s ways of pleasure, and where the situation of the city, surrounded on all sides by mountains that approach the sky, is fitted for the terrifying lairs of wild beasts.” — editor's note: Here the obvious sense of δεισιδαιμονῶν matches the “superstitious” of A.V. in Acts xvii. 22
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Jerome, Letters Letter 70
“And as if this were not enough, that leader of the Christian army, that unvanquished pleader for the cause of Christ, skilfully turns a chance inscription into a proof of the faith.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 22.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.19Book I
“…be not far from every one of us: for in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we also are His offspring.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 22–28.
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Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.12Book V
“Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 22, 23.
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