They that conducted Paul; who accompanied, and had undertaken to secure him. Athens; the Greece of Greece, or the eye of Greece; as Greece was accounted the eye of the world; and yet, with all its learning, did not attain to saving knowledge, until Paul came and preached it. Satan’s malice still causes the gospel to spread. read more
His spirit was stirred in him; moved, and sharpened, being highly affected with divers passions: 1. With grief, for so learned, and yet blind and miserable a place. 2. With zeal, and a holy desire to instruct and inform it. 3. With anger and indignation against the idolatry and sin that abounded in it. Wholly given to idolatry; or, as the marginal reading hath, full of idols. For we read, that there were more idols in Athens than in all Greece besides; and that it was easier to find a god there... read more
CRITICAL REMARKSActs 17:10. Bœrea.—Presently Pheria, south-west of Thessalonica, and fifty-one miles distant.Acts 17:12. Many of them believed.—Codex Bezœ adds, “And some disbelieved.” The adjective Greek qualifies men as well as women.Acts 17:13. They came thither also and stirred up the people should be they came, stirring up and troubling (“and troubling” being inserted in accordance with the best authorities) the people there also.Acts 17:14. As it were to the sea.—ὡς with ἐπί may signify... read more
CRITICAL REMARKSActs 17:16. Athens.—Described by Milton (Paradise Regained, Acts 4:20) as “the eye of Greece,” and “the mother of arts and eloquence.” The capital of Attica was situated about five miles from the harbour of Piræus, partly on a group of rocky hills, and partly upon the low land surrounding these, and separating them one from the other. Of these rocky eminences the loftiest was the Acropolis, which stood almost in the middle of the town, and to which a magnificent marble staircase... read more
Acts 17:16-17 Observe Three Things in this Passage. I. What St. Paul saw at Athens. He saw a city wholly given to idolatry. Idols met his eye in every street. The temples of idol gods and goddesses occupied every prominent position. And yet this city, be it remembered, was probably the most favourable specimen of a heathen city which St. Paul could have seen. In proportion to its size it very likely contained the most learned, civilised, philosophical, highly educated, artistic, intellectual... read more
DISCOURSE: 1789THE GOOD EFFECTS OF A CANDID ATTENTION TO THE GOSPELActs 17:11-12. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Therefore many of them believed.THE clamour often raised against the Gospel is no argument against the Gospel itself. God’s messengers have in all ages been opposed by the ungodly. Even our Lord himself, who spake as never man spake, was... read more
Therefore Illustrates John 5:46. Believing the O.T. they believed the Gospel. honourable Greek women of honourable estate. read more
stirred provoked within him as he beheld the city full of idols. read more
Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews ( Acts 17:1 ):Now Luke passes that off in one verse. From Philippi to Amphipolis was thirty miles. Another thirty miles on to Apollonia. And another thirty-seven miles on to Thessalonica. So it, no doubt, took them several days to travel almost a hundred miles to Thessalonica.And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them [that is into the synagogue], and reasoned them... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 17:14
To go as it were to the sea; that they might give over the pursuit of him; or, at least, be disappointed if they did pursue him, being he went on foot to Athens. But Silas and Timotheus abode there still; the fury of the persecutors not being so hot against them as against Paul, who was more known or maligned than Silas or Timotheus: or these might abide there longer, having their relations in Macedonia. read more