ACTS 17:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)”
All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent all their time doing nothing but talking about the latest ideas — Luke's characterization of Athenian intellectual culture as novelty-seeking (to neoteron) and conversational is historically resonant with both Thucydides and contemporary sources. The city's philosophical efflorescence has become detached from urgent truth-seeking.
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