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Acts 17:20

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For you bring certain new ideas to our ears. And so we would like to know what these things mean."

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I will write to him my intricate laws, which have been treated like strangers.

And they questioned him, saying: "Then why do the Pharisees and the scribes say that Elijah must arrive first?"

He said these things when he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

Now while Peter was still hesitant within himself as to what the vision, which he had seen, might mean, behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius stood at the gate, inquiring about Simon's house.

And apprehending him, they brought him to the Areopagus, saying: "Are we able to know what this new doctrine is, about which you speak?

(Now all the Athenians, and arriving visitors, were occupying themselves with nothing other than speaking or hearing various new ideas.)

And they were all astonished, and they wondered, saying to one another: "But what does this mean?"

For the Word of the Cross is certainly foolishness to those who are perishing. But to those who have been saved, that is, to us, it is the power of God.

But we are preaching Christ crucified. Certainly, to the Jews, this is a scandal, and to the Gentiles, this is foolishness.

But the animal nature of man does not perceive these things that are of the Spirit of God. For it is foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand it, because it must be examined spiritually.

Our message about him is great, and difficult to explain when speaking, because you have been made feeble when listening.

About this, they wonder why you do not rush with them into the same confusion of indulgences, blaspheming.




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