Acts 17:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:158
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
2 Peter 2:7
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:
Psalms 119:136
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Exodus 32:19-20
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. …
Job 32:18-20
For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-21)

A scholar that has acquaintance, and is in love, with the learning of the ancients, would think he should be very happy if he were where Paul now was, at Athens, in the midst of the various sects of philosophers, and would have a great many curious questions to ask them, for the explication of the remains we have of the Athenian learning; but Paul, though bred a scholar, and an ingenious active ma…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16-17. wholly given to idolatry--“covered with idols”; meaning the city, not the inhabitants. Petronius, a contemporary writer at Nero’s court, says satirically that it was easier to find a god at Athens than a man. This “stirred the spirit” of the apostle. “The first impression which the masterpieces of man’s taste for art left on the mind of St. Paul was a revolting one, since all this majesty a…