(For all the Athenians and strangers who were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Here the thing noted is, that though ever occupied only in this telling and hearing, yet they thought those things strange— things which they had never heard. Then Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus said, You men of Athens, I look upon you as being in all things more religiously disposed
