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 {Clave unto him and believed} (koll(8874)hentes aut(9369)
episteusan). First aorist passive of this strong word kolla(935c),
to glue to, common in Acts ( 5:13  8:29  9:26  10:28 ) No sermon
is a failure which leads a group of men (andres) to believe
(ingressive aorist of pisteu(935c)) in Jesus Christ. Many so-called
great or grand sermons reap no such harvest. {Dionysius the
Areopagite} (Dionusios ho Areopagit(8873)). One of the judges of
the Court of the Areopagus. That of itself was no small victory.
He was one of this college of twelve judges who had helped to
make Athens famous. Eusebius says that he became afterwards
bishop of the Church at Athens and died a martyr. {A woman named
Damaris} (gun(8820)onomati Damaris). A woman by name Damaris. Not
the wife of Dionysius as some have thought, but an aristocratic
woman, not necessarily an educated courtezan as Furneaux holds.
And there were "others" (heteroi) with them, a group strong
enough to keep the fire burning in Athens. It is common to say
that Paul in  1Co 2:1-5  alludes to his failure with philosophy
in Athens when he failed to preach Christ crucified and he
determined never to make that mistake again. On the other hand
Paul determined to stick to the Cross of Christ in spite of the
fact that the intellectual pride and superficial culture of
Athens had prevented the largest success. As he faced Corinth
with its veneer of culture and imitation of philosophy and sudden
wealth he would go on with the same gospel of the Cross, the only
gospel that Paul knew or preached. And it was a great thing to
give the world a sermon like that preached in Athens.

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