novel doctrine taught
by thee is? (20)For thou bringest some strange stories to our ears; we
wish therefore to know what these things mean. (21)Now all the
Athenians and the strangers who come to sojourn there, take pleasure in
spending their time in nothing else but in talking, or hearing of some
novelty.

(22)Then Paul standing in the midst of the Areopagus said, Ye men of
Athens, I observe that in all things ye are too much devoted to the
worship of daemons. (23)For as I walked about, and attentively viewed
the objects of your worship, I found even an altar on which was this
inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore you in ignorance adore,
him I preach unto you. (24)The God who created the world, and all
things in it, he that is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in
temples of man's construction; (25)nor is he served by human hands, as
if he needed any creature, himself imparting to all beings life, and
breath, and all things. (26)And hath made from one man's blood all the
nations of mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, fixing
the predetermined periods of their existence, and the boundaries of
their several abodes; (27)that they should seek the Lord, if indeed
they might haply grope him out, and find him, though truly he is not
far from any individual of us: (28)for from him we derive life, and
power of motion, and existence; as also some of your own poets have
said, "For we are even his offspring." (29)Being then the offspring of
God, we ought not to imagine that the Divinity is like to gold, or
silver, or stone sculptured by human art or contrivance. (30)These
times indeed of ignorance God then overlooked; but he now commands all
men in every place to repent: (31)because he hath fixed the day in
which he will judge the whole world in righteousness by the man whom he
hath appointed; affording evidence of this to all, by raising him from
the dead.

(32)But when they heard of the resurrection from the dead, Some
scoffed: and others said, We will hear thee again on this subject.
(33)And so Paul departed from the midst of them. (34)But certain
persons cleaving to him, believed: among whom was even Dionysius the
Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

CHAP. XVIII.

AND after these transactions, Paul departing from Athens, came to
Corinth; (2)and finding a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus,
lately arrived from Italy, with Priscilla his wife, (because Claudius