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Athenians

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Citizens of Athens, the cultural and philosophical center of Greece, whom Paul addressed on the Areopagus.

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Citizens of , the cultural and philosophical center of Greece. In Acts 17 addresses them on the Areopagus, and notes wryly that they "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing." The encounter is the New Testament's signature engagement with philosophy.

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