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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 17:22 - 17:22
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Then Paul stood ... and said - more graphically, “standing in the midst of Mars’ hill, said.” This prefatory allusion to the position he occupied shows the writer’s wish to bring the situation vividly before us [Baumgarten].
I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious - rather (with most modern interpreters and the ancient Greek ones), “in all respects extremely reverential” or “much given to religious worship,” a conciliatory and commendatory introduction, founded on his own observation of the symbols of devotion with which their city was covered, and from which all Greek writers, as well as the apostle, inferred the exemplary religiousness of the Athenians. (The authorized translation would imply that only too much superstition was wrong, and represents the apostle as repelling his hearers in the very first sentence; whereas the whole discourse is studiously courteous).