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Verse Acts 17:24. _GOD THAT MADE THE WORLD_, c.] Though the
_Epicureans_ held that the world was not made by God, but was the
effect of a fortuitous concourse of atoms, yet this opinion was not
popula...
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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, and thus to lead
them to repentance. For this purpose he commences with a s...
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CHAPTER 17
_ 1. The Gospel in Thessalonica (Acts 17:1)._
2. The Gospel in Beroea (Acts 17:10).
3. Paul in Athens (Acts 17:15).
Three cities in which the Gospel is next preached are before us in
th...
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PAUL'S SPEECH TO THE AREOPAGUS. He opens with a compliment to the
religiosity of the Athenians. He has walked up and down the city and
marked the many objects of worship; he has also found an altar wi...
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IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...
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WORLD. Greek. _kosmos._ App-129.
THEREIN. in (Greek. _en)_ it.
SEEING THAT HE IS. This One being essentially (Greek. _huparcho._ See
note on Luke 9:48).
HEAVEN. No art. See note on Matthew 6:9; Mat...
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Speech of St Paul at Athens
Taking notice of the extreme religious scrupulousness, which had led
the Athenians to raise an altar to an unknown God, the Apostle
declares to them the God whom alone the...
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SPEECH OF ST PAUL AT ATHENS
Taking notice of the extreme religious scrupulousness which had led
the Athenians to raiso an altar to an unknown God, the Apostle
declares to them the God whom alone they...
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_A SERMON ABOUT THE ONE TRUE GOD ACTS 17:24-34:_ In his sermon Paul
showed that the true God_ _ made the world and all things therein.
This God is Lord of heaven and earth. He gives to all life, and
b...
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ΠΟΙΉΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160)
делать,
ΎΠΑΡΧΩΝ _praes. act. part._ (причины) ΥΠΆΡΧΩ
(G5225) существовать, быть,
ΧΕΙΡΟΠΟΊΗΤΟΣ (G5499) рукотворный.
Возможно, Павел намекает на множе...
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IN ATHENS. Acts 17:14 b - Acts 17:34.
a.
The brethren from Berea go with Paul as far as Athens and take back a
command for the coming of Silas and Timothy. Acts 17:14 b - Acts 17:15
Acts 17:14 b
a...
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See notes on verse 22...
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God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is
Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
GOD THAT MADE THE WORLD AND ALL THINGS THEREIN. The most profou...
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19 The hill called the Areopagus (Latin, Mars' Hill), just a few steps
above the Market Place, was a most fitting forum for the folly of God
to defeat the wisdom of the world. At Rome Paul's weakness...
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SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED)
1-15. Thessalonica and Berœa.
1. Amphipolis] 32 m. W. of Philippi.
APOLLONIA] 30 m. W. of Amphipolis.
THESSALONICA] now Salonika, was the capital of the provin...
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GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE
ACTS
_MARION ADAMS_
CHAPTER 17
PAUL AND SILAS GO TO THESSALONICA, 17:1-4
V1 Paul and Silas travelled through Amphipolis and Apollonia. They
came to Thessalonica. There was...
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GOD THAT MADE THE WORLD... — The masculine form of the pronoun and
participles throughout the sentence presents an emphatic contrast to
the neuter pronoun of the previous verse.
SEEING THAT HE IS LOR...
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CHAPTER 12
ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA.
Acts 16:29; Acts 17:1; Acts 17:10
TROAS was at this time the termination of St. Paul's Asiatic travels.
He had passed diagonally right through Asia Minor, followin...
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ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ποιήσας : “the God Who made all,” R.V.,
the definiteness of the words and the revelation of God as Creator
stand in marked contrast to the imperfect conception of the divine
nature grasped by...
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THE ONE LIVING AND TRUE GOD
Acts 17:22
The gospel preacher must avail himself of any circumstance in his
surroundings that will enable him to arrest the attention of his
audience. He must meet them...
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At Thessalonica and Berea the apostle visited the synagogues, and
again in each case persecution arose from the Jews. A sentence which
fell from the lips of the leader of the mob shows with what rapid...
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Paul's Sermon on Mars Hill
The apostle began his sermon by noting that they were very religious,
worshipping idols devoted to all types of gods, even an unknown God.
Paul seized upon their recognitio...
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(13) God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is
Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
(13) It is a most foolish and vain thing to compare the Creat...
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God...dwelleth not in temples. He who is infinite cannot be confined
to space; nor stand in need of what human hands can furnish. Temples
are not for God, but for man. It is the latter who derives ass...
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PAUL AT ATHENS
16-33. While Timothy and Silas prosecute the work in the upper
country, Paul and Luke spend the time at Athens, the world's grand
emporium of science, literature, philosophy, and idolat...
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Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of
Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. (23)
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar wit...
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We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the
apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the
Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
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24._God, who hath made the world. _Paul’s drift is to teach what God
is. Furthermore, because he hath to deal with profane men, he draweth
proofs from nature itself; for in vain should he have cited...
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In the last case it was the power exercised by the enemy over the
passions of the Gentiles that caused the persecution of the apostles:
at Thessalonica we again find the old and universal enmity of th...
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GOD THAT MADE THE WORLD, AND ALL THINGS THEREIN,.... In this account
of the divine Being, as the Creator of the world, and all things in
it, as the apostle agrees with Moses, and the rest of the sacre...
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God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord
of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
Ver. 24. _Dwelleth not in temples_] _See Trapp on "_ Act 7:48 _"_...
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_God that made the world_ Thus is demonstrated, even to reason, the
one, true, good God; absolutely different from the creatures, from
every part of the visible creation. _Seeing he is Lord of heaven...
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DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES, according to the heathen idea of a local and
limited presence. He is not confined to any place, but fills all
places....
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The first part of Paul's speech:...
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From Philippi Paul and his company travelled westward in Greece to
Thessalonica (also in Macedonia). A Jewish synagogue being there, they
attended this for three sabbath days, reasoning with the Jews...
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GOD, WHO MADE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT, SINCE HE IS LORD OF
HEAVEN AND EARTH, DOES NOT DWELL IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS.
THE GOD YOU FORGOT ABOUT- - -(sermon outline--see comments on next
thre...
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"The God that made the world and all things therein, he, being Lord of
heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands"The God that
made the world and all things therein" First, the true God...
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22-31 Here we have a sermon to heathens, who worshipped false gods,
and were without the true God in the world; and to them the scope of
the discourse was different from what the apostle preached to...
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GOD THAT MADE THE WORLD; this seems to be directed against the
Epicureans, who held, that the world was without beginning. DWELLETH
NOT IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS; as if he could be tied to them, or
c...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III
Therefore God, winking at the times of ignorance, does now command all
men everywhere to turn to Him with repentance; because He hath
appointed a day, on which the...
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Acts 17:24 God G2316 made G4160 (G5660) world G2889 and G2532
everything G3956 in G1722 it G846 He G3778 is G5225 (G5723) Lord G2962
heaven G3772 and G2532 earth G1093 not G3756 dwell G2730 (G5719) in...
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EFFECTIVE MINISTRY IN ATHENS (17:15-34).
His Berean guides saw Paul safely to Athens. This had not been where
he was originally aiming for. After Thessalonica his intention had
probably been to proce...
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Acts 17:24. DWELLETH NOT IN TEMPLES MADE WITH HANDS. Commentators call
attention to the remarkable reminiscence of the dying speech of
Stephen before the Sanhedrim, which the Pharisee Saul must have
l...
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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 Athenians, but the
one God who made the Universe (κοσμος on the old Gre...
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CONTENTS: Founding of church at Thessalonica and the Jewish
opposition. Paul and Silas at Berea. Paul at Athens and the sermon
from Mars' hill.
CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Silas, Jason, Caesar, philoso...
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Acts 17:1. _When they had passed through Amphipolis._ Boiste adds the
Roman name _Emboli._ It was built by Simon, the Athenian commander. It
stood on an island formed in the river Strymon, and was cal...
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PAUL STOOD UP. Many seem to think Paul made a great mistake in what he
said to this group, and see a resolve never to repeat this error in
what he says in 1 Corinthians 2:1-5. But this cannot be! Paul...
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_And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athena _
PAUL AT ATHENS
I. The place which the apostle visited. Athens.
II. The feelings of which he was the subject. Not of admiration at the
masterp...
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ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:22 Paul’s Areopagus address is the prime
example in Acts 1:1 of preaching to Gentiles who have no knowledge of
the OT.
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 17:22. TOO SUPERSTITIONS.—Somewhat superstitious (R.V.);
better, _more god-fearing_, more religious (_sc._, than
others)—_i.e._, unusually religious; though the word has both...
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EXPOSITION
ACTS 17:1
AMPHIPOLIS. This was the ancient capital of that division of
Macedonia (Macedonia Prima); see Acts 16:12, note. It was situated on
the Via Egnatia, thirty-four miles southwest f...
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Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came
to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews (Acts 17:1):
Now Luke passes that off in one verse. From Philippi to Amph...
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1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:6; 2 Chronicles 6:18; 2 Kings 19:15; Acts
7:48; Acts 14:15; Acts 17:26; Acts 4:24; Daniel 4:35; Genesis 14:19;...
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God. With the article : "the God."
The world [τ ο ν κ ο σ μ ο ν]. Originally, order, and hence
the order of the world; the ordered universe. So in classical Greek.
In the Septuagint, never the world,...
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God who made the world — Thus is demonstrated even to reason, the
one true, good God; absolutely different from the creatures, from
every part of the visible creation....
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Here begins St. Paul's famous sermon to the men of Athens; in which
the first thing that occurs to our observation is, how the preacher
doth adapt and accommodate his discourse to the capacity of his...