Be ye does of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves....
Just as the Athenians loved the learning of new things, how much of it did they take up? Paul notes many were interested to hear the Gospel, to at least learn the story, but some of these began to believe!
The verse comes from James 1, addressed to the "Jews in dispersion" or the "Jews in the diaspora", the far-flung having fled or migrated to other lands. This was just as Abraham moved to the Holy Land originally, but here for different reasons did the Children of God leave the Holy Land, later.
We are all, in many ways, these Children of God in modernity, far-flung about the earth.
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