with appeal nor with courtesy. He began with direct attack. Was it not amazing for a Jew to open on an audience of Greeks with the flat announcement: “Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are over-religious”? “Over-religious? Too much religion?” they may well have said to themselves. “We expected him to accuse us of too little.” It was a surprise, a shock. So it caught their attention and augmented their curiosity. But it was no mere shock of surprise, this beginning. It also had its