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# Epicurean and Stoic philosophers
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"thinkers called Epicureans and Stoics"
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# encountered him
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"happened upon him"
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# Some said
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"Some of the philosophers said"
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# What is this babbler
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The word "babbler" was used to refer to birds picking up seeds as food. It refers negatively to a person who only knows a little bit of information. The philosophers said Paul had bits of information which were not worth listening to. Alternate translation: "What is this uneducated person"
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# Others said
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"Other philosophers said"
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# He seems to be one who calls people to follow
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"He seems to be a proclaimer" or "He seems to be on a mission to add people to his philosophy"
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# strange gods
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This is not in the sense of "odd," but in the sense of "foreign," that is, gods that Greeks and Romans do not worship or know about.
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