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John Gill's Exposition on Acts 17:20

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears, etc.] Strange doctrines and strange deities, such as they had never heard of before: we would know therefore what these things mean; they desire he would explain these things to them, and let them know the rise, and ground, and nature, and end, and design of them.
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