The Areopagus is situated strategically in the great city of Athens. It is on the road up to the Acropolis which contained (arguably) the most beautiful building in the world, the Parthenon. It overlooked the large market of the city, the agora, at the northern end of which was the famous stoa where philosophers taught for hundreds of years. ST. Paul chooses this site to proclaim the gospel. He believed he had more to offer than all the splendor before him. But his preaching was not a success. He argued for the gospel in philosophical terms and his hearers apparently took his message as one option among many. For Paul, of course, the gospel is not an opinion but a matter of life and death.
MAY242017
By Church Staff
