Actuum Apostolorum 17
1 Cum autem perambulassent Amphipolim, et Apolloniam, venerunt Thessalonicam, ubi erat synagoga Iudaeorum.
Now when they had gone through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica. Here there was a Jewish synagogue,
2 Secundum consuetudinem autem Paulus introivit ad eos, et per sabbata tria disserebat eis de Scripturis,
and Paul, according to his usual custom, went in to them and, for three Sabbath Days, he reasoned with them out of the Scriptures,
3 adaperiens et insinuans quia Christum oportuit pati, et resurgere a mortuis: et quia hic est Iesus Christus, quem ego annuncio vobis.
explaining and quoting passages to prove that the Messiah had to suffer and to rise again from the dead and that "This Jesus whom I am proclaiming unto you is the Messiah."
4 Et quidam ex eis crediderunt, et adiuncti sunt Paulo, et Silae, et de colentibus, Gentilibusque multitudo magna, et mulieres nobiles non paucae.
Some were persuaded and attached themselves to Paul and Silas, including a number of devout Greeks, and a large number of the leading women.
5 Zelantes autem Iudaei, assumentesque de vulgo viros quosdam malos, et turba facta, concitaverunt civitatem: et assistentes domui Iasonis quaerebant eos producere in populum.
But the Jews, moved with jealousy, called to their aid certain ill- favored and idle fellows, formed a mob, and began to set the town in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
6 Et cum non invenissent eos, trahebant Iasonem, et quosdam fratres ad principes civitatis, clamantes: Quoniam hi, qui Urbem concitant, et huc venerunt,
And when they had failed to find Paul and Silas, they began to drag Jason and some of the brethren before the politarchs, shouting. "These fellows who have upset the habitable earth are come hither also.
7 quos suscepit Iason, et hi omnes contra decreta Caesaris faciunt, regem alium dicentes esse, Iesum.
"Jason has received them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."
8 Concitaverunt autem plebem, et principes civitatis audientes haec.
Both the crowd and the politarchs were disturbed when they heard this,
9 Et accepta satisfactione a Iasone, et a ceteris, dimiserunt eos.
but when they had taken security from Jason and the rest, they let them go.
10 Fratres vero confestim per noctem dimiserunt Paulum, et Silam in Beroeam. Qui cum venissent, in synagogam Iudaeorum introierunt.
Now the brothers sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea. When they got there they betook themselves to the Jewish synagogue.
11 Hi autem erant nobiliores eorum, qui sunt Thessalonicae, qui susceperunt verbum cum omni aviditate, quotidie scrutantes Scripturas, si haec ita se haberent.
The Jews of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they very readily received the message with all readiness of mind, and day after day searched the Scriptures to see whether these things were so.
12 Et multi quidem crediderunt ex eis, et mulierum Gentilium honestarum, et viri non pauci.
So many of them became believers, and so did not a few Greeks, women of honorable estate, and men.
13 Cum autem cognovissent in Thessalonica Iudaei, quia et Beroeae praedicatum est a Paulo verbum Dei, venerunt et illuc commoventes, et turbantes multitudinem.
As soon as the Jews in Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea also, they came there, and stirred up and troubled the crowds.
14 Statimque tunc Paulum dimiserunt fratres, ut iret usque ad mare: Silas autem, et Timotheus remanserunt ibi.
Then the brothers at once sent Paul down to the sea, but Silas and Timothy remained behind.
15 Qui autem deducebant Paulum, perduxerunt eum usque Athenas, et accepto mandato ab eo ad Silam, et Timotheum ut quam celeriter venirent ad illum, profecti sunt.
Those who were caring for Paul brought him as far as Athens, and there left him, with instructions to Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed.
16 Paulus autem cum Athenis eos expectaret, incitabatur spiritus eius in ipso, videns idololatriae deditam civitatem.
While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred within him, when he noticed that the city was full of idols.
17 Disputabat igitur in synagoga cum Iudaeis, et colentibus, et in foro, per omnes dies ad eos, qui aderant.
He argued in the synagogues with the Jews and the devout proselytes, and also daily in the market-place with those that met him there.
18 Quidam autem Epicurei, et Stoici philosophi disserebant cum eo, et quidam dicebant: Quid vult seminiverbius hic, dicere? Alii vero: Novorum daemoniorum videtur annunciator esse: quia Iesum, et resurrectionem annunciabat eis.
A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him again and again. Some were saying, "What has this beggarly fellow to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods," because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
19 Et apprehensum eum ad Areopagum duxerunt, dicentes: Possumus scire quae est haec nova, quae a te dicitur, doctrina?
Then they laid hold of him and brought him up to Mars Hill, saying. "May we be told what this new teaching of yours is?
20 nova enim quaedam infers auribus nostris: Volumus ergo scire quidnam velint haec esse.
"For you are bringing certain strange things to our ears. We want to know, therefore, what these things mean."
21 (Athenienses autem omnes, et advenae hospites, ad nihil aliud vacabant nisi aut dicere, aut audire aliquid novi.)
(Now all the Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else, but to tell or to hear some new thing.)
22 Stans autem Paulus in medio Areopagi, ait: Viri Athenienses per omnia quasi superstitiosiores vos video.
So Paul stood up in the center of Mars Hill, and said. "Men of Athens, I perceive that in all respects you are remarkably religious.
23 Praeteriens enim, et videns simulacra vestra, inveni et aram, in qua scriptum erat: IGNOTO DEO. Quod ergo ignorantes colitis, hoc ego annuncio vobis.
"For as I was passing along and observing your objects of worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What you are worshiping in ignorance, this I am proclaiming to you.
24 Deus, qui fecit mundum, et omnia quae in eo sunt, hic caeli et terrae cum sit Dominus, non in manufactis templis habitat,
"The God who made the universe and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands,
25 nec manibus humanis colitur indigens aliquo, cum ipse det omnibus vitam, et inspirationem, et omnia:
"neither is he served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and all things.
26 fecitque ex uno omne genus hominum inhabitare super universam faciem terrae, definiens statuta tempora, et terminos habitationis eorum,
"He has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons and the bounds of their habitation,
27 quaerere Deum si forte attrectent eum, aut inveniant, quamvis non longe sit ab unoquoque nostrum.
"so that they might seek God, if perhaps they might feel after him and find him, though he is not far from every on of us;
28 In ipso enim vivimus, et movemur, et sumus: sicut et quidam vestrorum Poetarum dixerunt: Ipsius enim et genus sumus.
"for in him we live and move and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, "‘For we also are his offspring.’
29 Genus ergo cum simus Dei, non debemus aestimare auro, aut argento, aut lapidi, sculpturae artis, et cogitationis hominis, Divinum esse simile.
"Since then we are God’s offspring, we ought not to imagine that the Godhead is like to gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and device of man.
30 Et tempora quidem huius ignorantiae despiciens Deus, nunc annunciat hominibus ut omnes ubique poenitentiam agant,
"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent;
31 eo quod statuit diem, in quo iudicaturus est orbem in aequitate, in viro, in quo statuit, fidem praebens omnibus, suscitans eum a mortuis.
inasmuch as he has fixed a day in which he will judge the world justly, by the Man whom he has ordained, and he has given proof of all this by raising him from the dead."
32 Cum audissent autem resurrectionem mortuorum, quidam quidem irridebant, quidam vero dixerunt: Audiemus te de hoc iterum.
But on hearing of the resurrection of the dead, some began to mock; but others said, "We will hear you again on that subject."
33 Sic Paulus exivit de medio eorum.
So Paul withdrew from them.
34 Quidam vero viri adhaerentes ei, crediderunt: in quibus et Dionysius Areopagita, et mulier nomine Damaris, et alii cum eis.
A few, however, attached themselves to him and believed, among whom was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and some others.
