Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 17:12
12. Therefore In consequence of a candid heart and an examining energy many believed. A large Church was arising in a small place. Berea was beautifully promising to be a fair Christian city. read more
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Daniel Whedon
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 17:13
13. Stirred up the people Paul would gladly now have returned to visit his dear Thessalonian Church, but “Satan” instigating his Jewish foes, “hindered” him, and he diverges still farther to the southeast. read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 17:14
14. As it were Not that there was any deception, but real doubt whether they should take to the sea or not. Silas and Timothy remain to cherish the infant Church. Yet a charge is left for them to follow, as soon as may be, the apostle to Athens. This they failed to do. Paul had to stand up single and alone in Athens, but was joined by Silas and Timothy at Corinth, (Acts 18:5.) Meantime the loving conductors of Paul see him safe in Athens. Click image for full-size version read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 17:15-34
Christianity offered to Athens , Acts 17:15-34 . Sailing from Dium the apostle would look a regretful farewell upon the distant mountain tops of Thessalonica; and, more near, the snowy Mount Olympus, the mythical home of the Homeric gods, would recede from sight. He would sail by Thermopylae, where Leonidas, with his three hundred, died for Grecian liberty; and Marathon, where Miltiades repelled the invading Persian. Finally, after probably about three days’ sail, he sweeps round into the... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 17:16
16. Paul waited… at Athens Having left Silas and Timothy, and dismissed his Berean conductors, the apostle treads the streets a pensive solitaire. He who could quote, even here, the appropriate passage from the Greek poets, was doubtless not blind to the perfection with which art had wrought poetry in marble. But he comes with the firmness of a conqueror, not to be subdued by the beauty of his foe. He is the missionary of the Infinite, and he must not be seduced out of his mission by the... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 17:17
17. Synagogue Paul was not the first Jew in Athens. And wherever there were ten Jews there was likely to be a synagogue. To the synagogue the apostle goes to offer Christ before he presents him to the agora; “to the Jew first,” even in Athens, “and also to the Gentile.” Devout persons Athenians inclined to renounce idolatry and adore the true Jehovah. Them that met with him To three classes then did Paul open his mission: to the Jews, to the monotheists, and to the accidental... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 17:18
18. Philosophers Socrates was the first who turned the study of men from mere physics to mind and morals. His more legitimate followers were Plato and Aristotle, the former of whom endeavoured to place man’s immortality and the law of immutable right and truth upon a firm basis of positive reason. Of this class of philosophers none seem to have encountered the apostle. Epicureans The essential principle of Epicurus was that man should aim at the greatest possible amount of happiness. This... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 17:19
19. Took him Not violence, but guidance. Areopagus Capriciously rendered by our translators Mars’ hill, in Acts 17:22. The term is compounded of Αρειον , belon g ing to Mars, and παγος , hill, and the place was so named because, according to mythology, on that height the god Mars, having slain the son of Neptune, pleaded his case before the twelve great gods. Here the most ancient and reverend court known in Greece, consisting of the weightiest characters of the state, held its... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 17:20
20. Strange things A new form of religion from the East! Something from Syria that even the Jews of Athens do not recognise! read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 17:1-34
PART THIRD. CHRISTIANITY AMONG THE GENTILES. From Chapter Acts 13:1, to End of Acts. Through the remainder of his work Luke’s subject is the evangelization of the Gentiles, and his hero is Paul. His field is western Asia and Europe; his terminal point is Rome, and the work is the laying the foundation of modern Christendom. At every point, even at Rome, Luke is careful to note the Gospel offer to the Jews, and how the main share reject, and a remnant only is saved. And thus it appears that... read more