ACTS 17:22 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.”
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.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:22
May we know what is this new doctrine spoken of by you? For you bring certain strange matters to our ears Acts 17:20: everywhere novelty is the charge: we would fain know therefore, what these things may mean. It was a city of talkers, that city of theirs. 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. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said, You men of Athens, I look upon you…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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