Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 17:20

20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

The greatest Objection which these men had against the Gospel, was, that it was strange and new. That it is not new, was apparent, it having been in the Old Testament (as the ripe fruit is in the blossom) so long ago; and their own Superstitions were but so many Apish imitations of God's Worship. And [illegible: 1 word] these things were strange unto them, they might thank themselves, who had not made due enquiring after them; and had by their not improving the light of Nature, provoked G[illegible: 1 letter]d to withhold further manifestations unto them, Rom. 1.24, 28.