And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof you speak, is?
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
(a) The Athenians no longer enjoyed their own laws, but had become subject to the Romans. (g) (Then) why did they hale him to the Areopagus? Meaning to overawe him— (the place) where they held the trials for bloodshed. May we know, what is this new doctrine spoken of by you? For you bring certain strange things to our ears; we would fain know therefore what these things mean. 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.
