The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 17:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Strange things. ξενίζειν, in this use of it, means to act or play the foreigner, to imitate the manners and language and appearance of a foreigner ( ξένος), just as ἰουδαίζειν ἐλληνίζειν αττικίζειν, etc.

, mean to Judaize, Hellenize, Atticize, etc. Here, then, the Athenians say that St. Paul's doctrines have a foreign air, do not lock like native Athenian speculations.

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