ACTS 17:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.”
A group of Epicurean and Stoic philosophers began to dispute with him — Some of them asked, 'What is this babbler trying to say?' — Epicureanism and Stoicism represent the two dominant philosophical schools; both dismiss the gospel's claims. The term spermologos (seed-picker, babbler) suggests Paul scatters intellectual seeds without coherence, a dismissal of his philosophical credentials.
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