Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: 'People of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious (deisidaimonesteros, more religious or more superstitious)' — Paul's opening employs a rhetorical ambiguity: deisidaimonesteros can mean either admirably religious or excessively superstitious. This calculated irony invites the Athenians to recognize themselves.

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