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One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons. This testimony is true. For which cause reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.
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Evil communications corrupt good manners ; and the other in the Apostle's speech on the Areopagus at Athens, as recorded in the Acts (xvii. 28):
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For we are also his offspring. They cannot be relied upon as sufficient to prove that St. Paul was well read in classical literature, any more than the quoting of a hackneyed line from Shakespeare, from Byron, and from Tennyson, would prove that an English writer was well acquainted with English literature. It may have been the case that St. Paul knew a great deal of Greek classical literature, but these three quotations, from Epimenides, from some Greek tragedian, and from Cleanthes or Aratus, do not at all prove the point. In all three cases the source of the quotation is not certain. In the one before us the Apostle no doubt tells us that he is quoting a Cretan
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and therefore quotes the line as coming from Epimenides. But a man may know that
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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears