Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 17:18
Of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks. Two of the philosophical
schools then prevalent in Athens. The first held that the gods were
careless about human affairs, and that a man's best course was to get
as much pleasure out of life as possible. With them pleasure was the
chief good. The Stoics were fatalists, believers in a sort of
pantheism, and insisted on self-righteousness. Epicurus was the founder
of the first sect; Zeno, of the second.
What will this babbler say? A contemptuous expression.
A setter forth of strange gods. He spoke of God and the risen
Jesus. Some have thought that they mistook "Anastasis", the Greek for
"resurrection", for the name of a goddess.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 17:18
1 Corinthians 1:22
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