And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him with all speed, they departed.
Ver. 15. Brought him unto Athens] The eye of Greece, but woefully now bemisted with the fog of superstition, as our universities also have been of late. Athens was a pleasant and ancient city. Cecrops is said to have been king of it in Moses's time. It was anciently called κοσμος κοσμου, "the ornament or glory of the world." But Gregory Nazianzen reports of it that it was the plaguiest place in the world for superstition; and he aeknowledgeth it a great mercy that he and Basil were preserved from those infections.