But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements (stoicheia | στοιχεῖα | nom pl neut) will melt in the intense heat, and the earth and the works in it will be exposed.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic elements (stoicheia | στοιχεῖα | acc pl neut) of God’s revelation. You have become people needing milk, not solid food;
Since you died with Christ to the elemental (stoicheiōn | στοιχείων | gen pl neut) spirits of the world, why, as though you were still living in the world, do you submit to regulations such as,
See to it that no one takes you captive by means of philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the elemental (stoicheia | στοιχεῖα | acc pl neut) spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
But now that you have come to know God — or rather, are known by God — how can you turn back again to the feeble and inferior elementary principles (stoicheia | στοιχεῖα | acc pl neut) of the world? How can you want to be their slaves all over again?
Also some of the Epicurean and Stoic (Stoikōn | Στοι&κῶν | gen pl masc) philosophers were conversing with him, and some were asking, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of strange gods,” for he was announcing the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.
By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were being done among the people. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico (stoa | στοᾷ | dat sg fem).
While he clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the covered (stoa | στοᾷ | dat sg fem) walkway called Solomon’s Portico, utterly astounded.
