and Paul waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, beholding the city wholly given to idolatry,Acts 17:16 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleHe saw the city wholly given to idolatry - Κατειδωλον, Full of idols, as the margin has it, and very properly. Whoever examines the remains of this city, as represented by Mr. Stuart in his Antiquities, already referred to, will be satisfied of the truth of St. Luke's remark: it was full of idols. Bishop Pearce produces a most apposite quotation from Pausanias, which confirms the observation: Ουκ ην αλλαχου τοσαυτα ιδειν ειδωλα. There was no place where so many idols were to be seen. Paus. in Attic. cap. xvii. 24.
Petronius, who was contemporary with St. Paul, in his Satyr. cap. xvii., makes Quartilla say of Athens: Utique nostra regio tam Praesentibus Plena Est Numinibus, ut facilius possis Deum quam Hominem invenire. Our region is so full of deities that you may more frequently meet with a god than a man.
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Exodus 32:19,20 And it came to pass, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot...
Numbers 25:6-11 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses...
1 Kings 19:10,14 And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant...
Job 32:2,3,18-20 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled...
Psalm 69:9 For the zeal of your house has eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached you are fallen on me.
Psalm 119:136,158 Rivers of waters run down my eyes, because they keep not your law...
Jeremiah 20:9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name...
Micah 3:8 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression...
Mark 3:5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he said to the man...
John 2:13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Peter 2:7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
wholly given to idolatry. or, full of idols.
Acts 17:23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD...
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