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“” And this moved the laughter of the Areopagites, for when he spoke of the resurrection of the dead, “Some mocked, and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.”
“So that they become like those noble Bereans, who were more noble than those of Thessalonica because they searched the Scriptures, whether those things were so.”
“Wherever they went to preach the Gospel, the Jews who opposed them sought to stir up the refuse of the city to put an end to their ministry, and then, when a great tumult was made by the Jews themselves, who had taken unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city in an…”
“” Remember again the saying of the apostle at Athens, “God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.”