. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. curred as he was waiting for thtir arrival lonica, and that Paul, by saying that he was left (Acts xvii. 16) ? more particularly as his eu- at Athens alone, means only that he waived the counter with the Epicureans and Stoics was order that Silas and Timothy should join him while he was so waiting, and this encounter was there. Wieseler, Chronol. Apost. 248. But as toward the close of his sojourn, for he left Athens those who conducted Paul to Athens carried the in consequence of back to Siias and Timothy to come wr 1 Thess. ii. 17 to 20; and 1 T
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. curred as he was waiting for thtir arrival lonica, and that Paul, by saying that he was left (Acts xvii. 16) ? more particularly as his eu- at Athens alone, means only that he waived the counter with the Epicureans and Stoics was order that Silas and Timothy should join him while he was so waiting, and this encounter was there. Wieseler, Chronol. Apost. 248. But as toward the close of his sojourn, for he left Athens those who conducted Paul to Athens carried the in consequence of back to Siias and Timothy to come wr 1 Thess. ii. 17 to 20; and 1 Thess. iii. 1 to 5. Chai. XIl.] ST. PAUL AT ATIIESS. [ 51] 25(1 left alone to declaim against Pagan idolatries. His ability and learning had bythis time attracted public observation, and even the Epicureans and the philosopherswho paced the Painted Porch adjoining the market did not deem it beneath their dic;nity to enter tlie lists against so formidable an antagonist. Kig. \,i trait / Ejjiainis, Fmiinler of the Sect of Ep. IV Kinds Antiqu The Epicureans, so called from their founder Epicurus, nu Athenian, supposedthe world to have been formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, and that the Deitywas a purely contemplative being, insensible to pain or pleasure, and taking nointerest in the affairs of mankind^-—that the soul was material and had no conscious-ness after death, but was dispersed into its primitive elements. Their axiom was.
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