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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 17:34

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Acts 17:34 (WEB)

But certain men joined with him and believed, including Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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  • “Besides these, that Areopagite, named Dionysius, who was the first to believe after Paul’s address to the Athenians in the Areopagus (as recorded by Luke in the Acts) is mentioned by another Dionysius, an ancient writer and pastor of the parish in Corinth, as the first bishop of the church at Athens.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 34. This Dionysius has played an important part in Church history, as the pretended author of a series of very remarkable writings, which pass under…

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  • “He records, moreover, that Dionysius the Areopagite, who was converted to the faith by the apostle Paul, according to the statement in the Acts of the Apostles, first obtained the episcopate of the church at Athens.” — editor's note: See Acts xvii. 34.

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