Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 17:22

22 ¶ Then Paul stood in the midst of Ma[illegible: 1 letter]shill, and said, Ye men of Athen[illegible: 1 letter], I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

See ver. 19.

Sometimes this word is taken in a good sense; many then, as now, taking Superstition to be Religion. But it is often taken in a bad sense. Thus Theophrastus says, that a truly pious man is a friend of God; [non-Latin text not transcribed]; but the superstitious man is a flatterer of God. Now this word being then of a kind of middle signification, the Apostle would seem not to bear too hard upon the Athenians, who were devout and religious, according to the measure of their knowledg, and whom he desired to win by love and gentleness.

Marginal references: Or, Court of the Areopagites.