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and said--more graphically, "standing in the midst of Mars' hill, said." of the chief women--female proselytes of distinction. They asked about Paul's doctrine, not because it was good, but because it was new. 10-12. the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night--for it would have been as useless as rash to attempt any further preaching at that time, and the conviction of this probably made his friends the more willing to pledge themselves against any present continuance of missionary effort. For though Paul himself says to the Thessalonians that he "thought it good to be left at Athens alone" ( 1 Thessalonians 3:1 ), he immediately adds that he "sent Timotheus to establish and comfort them" ( Acts 17:2 ); meaning, surely, that he despatched him from Athens back to Thessalonica. Proud member What will this babbler say?--The word, which means "a picker-up of seeds," bird-like, is applied to a gatherer and retailer of scraps of knowledge, a prater; a general term of contempt for any pretended teacher. This prefatory allusion to the position he occupied shows the writer's wish to bring the situation vividly before us [BAUMGARTEN]. that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device--("graven by the art or device of man"). And they troubled the people and the rulers — As the charge was formed in such a manner that their neglecting it might render them obnoxious to the Romans, both the multitude and the magistrates of the city were alarmed when they heard these things. The apostle spoke of an altar he had seen, with the inscription, "TO THE UNKNOWN GOD." 34. The Lord had long borne with idolatry, but the times of this ignorance were now ending, and by his servants he now commanded all men every where to repent of their idolatry. Acts /. (32-34). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Commentary on Acts 17:1-9 (Read Acts 17:1-9) The drift and scope of Paul's preaching and arguing, was to prove that Jesus is the Christ. 23. as I passed by and beheld your devotions--rather, "the objects of your devotion," referring, as is plain from the next words, to their works of art consecrated to religion. The apostle, however, was not here on his trial, but to expound more fully what he had thrown out in broken conversations in the Agora. Determined to evangelize new regions, he went forward. And are there not many now called Christians, who are zealous in their devotions, yet the great object of their worship is to them an unknown God? After multiplying their idols to the utmost, some at Athens thought there was another god of whom they had no knowledge. I unto you--This is like none of his previous discourses, save that to the idolaters of Lycaonia ( Acts 14:15-17 ). It gave the death blow to his fundamental and most cherished ideas; nor until these were seen to be false and fatal could the Resurrection, and the Gospel of which it was a primary doctrine, seem otherwise than ridiculous. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica--The comparison is between the Jews of the two places; for the triumphs of the Gospel at Thessalonica were mostly among the Gentiles. They probably, like Felix, feared to hear more, lest they should be constrained to believe unwelcome truths" ( Acts 24:25 ; and compare Matthew 13:15 ) [WEBSTER and WILKINSON]. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship--rather, "Whom, therefore, knowing Him not, ye worship," alluding to "The Unknown God." by that man whom he hath ordained--compare John 5:22 John 5:23 John 5:27 , Acts 10:42 . . So when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go. 17. They looked on this as very different from the knowledge for many ages taught and professed at Athens; they desire to know more of it, but only because it was new and strange. sought to bring them--Jason's lodgers. dwelleth not in temples made with hands--This thought, so familiar to Jewish ears ( 1 Kings 8:27 , Isaiah 66:1 Isaiah 66:2 , Acts 7:48 ), and so elementary to Christians, would serve only more sharply to define to his heathen audience the spirituality of that living, personal God, whom he "announced" to them. Silas and Timotheus to come to him with all speed--He probably wished their company and aid in addressing himself to so new and great a sphere as Athens. The zealous advocate for the cause of Christ will be ready to plead for it in all companies, as occasion offers. Then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. One can hardly doubt that the apostle would here point to those matchless monuments of the plastic art, in gold and silver and costliest stone, which lay so profusely beneath and around him. 3. 33. crying, These that have turned the world upside, 7. all do contrary to the decrees of Cæsar, &c.--meaning, probably, nothing but what is specified in the next words. Opening and alleging that Christ must needs have suffered, &c.--His preaching, it seems, was chiefly expository, and designed to establish from the Old Testament Scriptures (1) that the predicted Messiah was to be a suffering and dying, and therefore a rising, Messiah; (2) that this Messiah was none other than Jesus of Nazareth. whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead--the most patent evidence to mankind at large of the judicial authority with which the Risen One is clothed. 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