Topical Bible: Idolatry: Athenians

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Acts 17:16
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.
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Paul in Athens.
... "The spirit of Paul was stirred in him," by the idolatry of the Athenians.
The indignity offered to the true God, by the worship ...
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Berea and Athens
... Thus closed the labors of the apostle at Athens, the center of heathen learning,
for the Athenians, clinging persistently to their idolatry, turned from the ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 23 berea and athens.htm

Paul at Athens
... and the relations of a philosophy of history and an argument against idolatry. ... more
strikingly shown than in that great address to the quick-witted Athenians. ...
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What God Is
... I fear much of our religion is like the Athenians, they built an altar to ... There is
outward idolatry and there is inward, there is idolatry in action, when men ...
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The Ministry of Paul in Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, and Corinth.
... The Athenians, from time immemorial, had been noted for their intellectual elevation;
and a ... in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry." [102:1]. ...
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Of the Persecutions in Persia and of them that were Martyred There ...
... even the divine Apostle, when he came to Athens and saw the city wholly given to
idolatry, destroyed any one of the altars which the Athenians honoured, but ...
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Acts XVII
... The pride of human philosophy, and the debasement of refined idolatry had overpowered
the influence of the law and the ... (21) For all the Athenians, and the ...
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Deified and Stoned
... It is simply a vehemently earnest protest against idolatry, and a proclamation of
one ... All that might suit the delicate ears of Athenians, but would have been ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/deified and stoned.htm

Then, Distinguishing Between Essence and Generation, He Declares ...
... Such a reproach Paul also once incurred with the Athenians, being charged therewith
by them ... among their gods of those who were mad in their idolatry, and was ...
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Acts 17:16-17. Athens.
... He saw a "city wholly given to idolatry." Idols met his eyes in every ... The ancient
writer Pausanias expressly says, that "the Athenians surpassed all states in ...
/.../chapter ix acts 17 16-17 athens.htm