And in Athens, while Paul waited for them, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was full of idols.

And having quieted the crowd, the city clerk said: "Men of Ephesus, for what man is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple keeper of the great goddess Artemis, and of the [image] fallen from heaven?

but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, whom Paul affirmed to be living.

Thus says the Lord: Learn not the ways of the heathen, and be not alarmed at the signs of the sky; for they are alarmed at them, [falling] on their faces.

For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.

and they shall be ashamed; for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.