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Acts 17:16

Acts 17:16

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

Provoked within for stirred in, A.V. ( παρωξύνετο: see , note); as he beheld for when he saw, A.V.; full of idols for wholly given to idolatry, A.V. The Greek κατείδωλος occurs only here, either in the New Testament or elsewhere.

But the analogy of ether words similarly compounded fixes the meaning "full of idols"—a description fully borne out by Pausanias and Xenophon and others (Steph., 'Thesaur.;' Meyer, etc.).

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