John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 17:23
For as I passed by ,.... Or "through"; that is, through the city of Athens: and beheld your devotions ; not so much their acts of worship and religion, as the gods which they worshipped; in which sense this word is used in 2 Thessalonians 2:4 and the altars which were erected to them, and the temples in which they were worshipped; and so the Syriac and Arabic versions render it, "the houses", and "places of your worship"; and the Ethiopic version, "your images", or "deities", I... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 17:22
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill ,.... Or of Areopagus, as it is better rendered in Acts 17:19 for it is the same place, and it is the same word that is here used: Paul stood in the midst of that court of judicature, amidst the Areopagites, the judges of that court, and the wise and learned philosophers of the different sects that were assembled together: and said, ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious ; or "more religious", than any other... read more