아덴(Athens)은 그리스의 주요 도시이다. 아테네를 말한다. Paul은 2차 전도 여행때 이곳을 방문했고, 회당과 시장, Areopagus에서 전도하고 당시 그리스에 유행했던 여러 철학자들과 변론했다.

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But those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens. Receiving a commandment to Silas and Timothy that they should come to him very quickly, they departed.
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Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.
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So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.
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Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.
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They took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is, which you are speaking about?
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For you bring certain strange things to our ears. We want to know therefore what these things mean.”
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Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
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Paul stood in the middle of the Areopagus, and said, “You men of Athens, I perceive that you are very religious in all things.

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