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(The Apostle Paul is waiting at Athens, and some of the Epicureans and Stoics engaged him in conversation.)

Agon, Aidos, Apate, Bia, Corus and Dysnomia (talking amongst themselves) say “What will this seed picker say?”

(A seed picker was a bird that picked seeds out of the waste in the gutters)

Eris, Eupraxia, Hybris, Kratos, Oizys and Penthous say “He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods.”
 
“In the name of Zues and Hera why does he preach two deities, this Jesus and the goddess Resurrection?”

(A total of 500 lifetime members makes up the Areopagus Council)

The Council: “May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
 
(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

The Apostle Paul: Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To The Unknown God. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:”

Some in the Council murmur “Does he speak of Homer’s Cyclopes?”

Paul: “For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said,”

Some in the Council “Does he speak of “The Hymn of Zues”, and the line “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and lazy gluttons” by Epimenides of Crete?” 

“Is he talking about us?”

Paul: “For we are also his offspring. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.”

(And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead)

(Half of the Council): “This is psithurism, he is like the sound of the wind blowing through the trees. He should be condemned like Sisyphus”
 
“Maybe he should lay with Phryne the Courtesan, to relieve some tension” 

“Has he not heard that Uranus the father of the sky reigns?”

 “By the names of Solon and Cleisthenes how has he brought these strange gods to us?”

 “Maybe he should be put on trial like Orestes?”
 “Or maybe he’s here in the spirit of Ephialtes, who brought reform and took away some of our power.”

(The other half of the Council): “We will hear thee again of this matter.” “If Chronos permit”

Dionysius and Damaris and others believed the Apostle Paul.

“Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” 

“They [Gentiles] show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts ACCUSE or even EXCUSE them on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.”
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