Ac
17.28: For “In him we live and move and have our being;” as even
some of your own poets have said, “For we too are his offspring.”
1a.
Epimenides of Crete? Posidonius?:
Ac
17.28: For “In him we live and move and have our being;” as
even some of your own poets have said, “For we too are his
offspring.”
2.
Epimenides, De Oraculis/Peri Chrēsmōn:
Tt 1.12: It was one of
them, their very own prophet, who said, "Cretans are always liars,
vicious brutes, lazy gluttons."
3.
Euripides, Bacchae, 794: If I were you, I would offer him a
sacrifice, not rage and kick against the goad, a man defying God.
Ac
26.14: When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying
to me in the Hebrew language, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting
me? It hurts you to kick against the goads.”
4.
Heraclitus: ?
2Pt
2.22: It has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The
dog turns back to its own vomit," and, "The sow is washed only to
wallow in the mud."
5.
Julianus, Or 8.246b: ? [see also 3, above]
Ac
26.14: When we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying
to me in the Hebrew language, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting
me? It hurts you to kick against the goads.”
6.
Menander, Thaïs, 218: ?
1Cor 15.33: Do not be
deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
7.
Thucydides, II 97.4: For there was here established a custom
opposite to that prevailing in the Persian kingdom, namely, of
taking rather than giving; more disgrace being attached to not
giving when asked than to asking and being refused; and although
this prevailed elsewhere in Thrace, it was practised most
extensively among the powerful Odrysians, it being impossible to get
anything done without a present.
Ac
20.35: In all this I have given you an example that by such work we
must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for
he himself said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”