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The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands,
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The One Universal Creator
Paul begins by establishing God as the single, all-powerful Creator of the entire universe. Commentators explain this directly confronted the core beliefs of his Athenian audience, refuting both their polytheism (many gods) and the dominant philosophies that claimed the world was eternal or formed by a random concourse of atoms.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
God that made the world. The main object of this discourse of Paul is to convince them of the folly of idolatry (Acts 17:29) a…
The God that made the world (Hο θεος ο ποιησας τον κοσμον). Not a god for this and a god for that like the 30,000 gods of the Athe…
19th Century
Anglican
God that made the world . . .—The masculine form of the pronoun and participles throughout the sentence presents an emphatic contr…
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The substance of the Athenian address concerns the nature of God and the responsibility of human beings to God. Contrary to all pantheistic and pol…
16th Century
Protestant
God, who has made the world. Paul’s aim is to teach what God is. Furthermore, because he has to deal with profane men, he draws proofs fro…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
God that made the world, and all things therein In this account of the divine Being, as the Creator of the world, an…
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Here we have a sermon addressed to heathens, who worshipped false gods and were without the true God in the world. For them, the scope of the disco…
