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Acts 17:18

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? Others, He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

How came they to be willing to confer with him? (They did it) when they saw others reasoning, and the man having repute (in the encounter). And observe straightway with overbearing insolence, some said, What would this babbler say? For the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:14 Other some, He seems to be a setter-forth of strange deities: δαιμονίων, for so they called their gods. And having taken him, they brought him, etc.

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