Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 17:28
See notes on verse 22
See notes on verse 22
ACTS 17:28 w`j kai, tinej tw/n kaqV u`ma/j poihtw/n {A} Codex Bezae adds to the quotation the phrase to. kaqV h`me,ran (“in him we live and move and have our being _day by day”_). According to Rende...
Verse Acts 17:28. _FOR IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING_] He is the very _source_ of our _existence_: the principle of _life_ comes from him: the principle of _motion_, also, comes from hi...
FOR IN HIM WE LIVE - The expression “in him” evidently means by him; by his originally forming us, and continually sustaining us. No words can better express our constant dependence on God. He is the...
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 thi...
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...
Paul stood up in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of Athens, I see that in all things you are as superstitious as possible. As I came through your city and as I saw the objects of your worshi...
IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...
IN. by. Greek. _en._ App-104. HAVE OUR BEING. are. YOUR OWN POETS. the poets with (Greek. _kata._ App-104.) you. He refers to Aratus, who -was. native of Cilicia (about 270 B. C). Cleanthes (about 3...
_for in him we live_ i.e. _through_or _by_Him. All our existence is through His care, therefore He must be near to all of us. The preposition is rendered _by_in Acts 17:31, "_By_that man whom he hath...
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...
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...
ἘΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι ΓᾺΡ ΖΩ͂ΜΕΝ, _for in Him we live_, i.e. _through_ or _by_ Him. For ἐν in this sense, see below Acts 17:31. All our existence is through His care. He must therefore be near unto each of us....
_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...
ΖΏΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить, ΚΙΝΟΎΜΕΘΑ _praes. ind. med._/pass. от ΚΙΝΈΩ (G2795) двигаться. Этот гл. может означать одновременно и "Он движет нас" и "мы движемся в Нем" (DCNT, 127)....
FOR IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, &C.— No words can better express that continued and necessary dependance of all derived beings, in their existence, and all their operations, on their first and almighty...
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 -...
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. FOR IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING, [ kai (G2532) esmen ...
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...
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...
ATHENS. After leaving Berœa, St. Paul entered the Roman province of Achaia, which was at this time a senatorian province, governed by a proconsul, and of which the capital was Corinth. He first visite...
PAUL'S SPEECH. It is discreet and to the point. It deals not with the OT., with which his hearers were unacquainted, but with the truths of natural religion, many of which were understood (though only...
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...
FOR IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING. — Better, _we live, and are moved, and are._ Each of the verbs used has a definite philosophical significance. The first points to our animal life; th...
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...
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...
St. Chrysostom comments (_Hom._, xxxviii.): Τί λέ γω μακράν; οὕτως ἐγγύς ἐστιν, ὡς χωρὶς αὐτοῦ μὴ ζῆν. ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ζῶμεν κ. τ. λ.… καὶ οὐκ εἶπε, διʼ αὐτοῦ, ἀλλʼ ὃ ἐγγύτερον ἦν, ἐν αὐτῷ. In the three v...
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...
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...
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 recognition...
St. Paul here cites Aratus, a Greek poet, and his own countryman, a native of Cilicia....
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...
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...
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...
_‘IN HIM’_ ‘In Him we live, and move, and have our being.’ Acts 17:28 The subject is a very deep and very mysterious one. The words exceed all comprehension—this wonderful union—this almost identit...
− 28._For in him. _I grant that the apostles, according to the Hebrew phrase, do oftentimes take this preposition _in _for per, or _by _or _through; _but because this speech, that we live in God, hath...
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...
FOR IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING,.... The natural life which men live is from God; and they are supported in it by him; and from him they have all the comforts and blessings of life; a...
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. Ver. 28. _For in him we live, &c._] The heathen could say, " _Est Deus i...
Acts 17:27, 28. "That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us: for in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certa...
_That they should seek_, &c. As if he had said, This most wise and free government of the nations of men, God carries on through all ages for this purpose, _that they_ may be led to _seek the Lord_ Th...
YOUR OWN POETS; Aratus of Cilicia, a Greek poet who lived more than three hundred years before, and Cleanthes, who lived about the same time, and was successor of Zeno the founder of the Stoics, both...
FOR IN HIM WE LIVE, AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING, AS CERTAIN ALSO OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, FOR WE ARE ALSO HIS OFFSPRING. Paul had been placed by those men that conducted him and now stood in the...
The first part of Paul's speech:...
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...
FOR IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING, AS ALSO SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, ‘FOR WE ARE ALSO HIS OFFSPRING. ' 1. We owe our very existence to Him. It is in and through God that we live,...
"for in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring"For" Expanding upon the last statement made. "In Him we live, and move, an...
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...
IN HIM WE LIVE, &C.; he is the God that made us, that preserves us, and not we ourselves; he keeps us as in the hollow of his hand, and compasseth our paths. Our breath is in our nostrils, and when we...
Origen de Principiis Book II To the same effect also are the words of Paul, in his address to the Athenians, when he says, "In Him we live, and move, and have our being."[8] Origen Against Celsus Bo...
Acts 17:28 for G1063 in G1722 Him G846 live G2198 (G5719) and G2532 move G2795 (G5743) and...
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 procee...
“And he made out of one every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek God, if haply th...
FOR IN HIM (εν αυτω γαρ). Proof of God's nearness, not stoic pantheism, but real immanence in God as God dwells in us. The three verbs (ζωμεν, κινουμεθα, εσμεν) form an ascending scale and reach a...
FOR WE Found in the writings of Aratus and Cleanthes....
Acts 17:26 St. Paul at Athens. I. The Jewish nation had existed to be a witness for this universal fellowship among the nations. It had existed as a witness against that which tended to divide them a...
Acts 17:28 I. Since God is everywhere, we move, speak, act, think _in_God. We rise up, we lie down, we eat, we drink, we work, we rest, we speak, in God, we pray to God, or men forget God; not only wi...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill._ NOVELTY ATTRACTIVE Yes, the people gathered in crowds round the statue, and looked at it again and again. It was not the finest work of art in the city,...
_In Him we live and move and have our being._ IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE, AND HAVE OUR BEING I. Wrong views of the nature of God lie at the foundation of all false theories of religion. These are-- 1...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:28 SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS. Instead of the OT, Paul quotes some statements from pagan Greek writers familiar to his audience. He quotes them with approval, but this does not imply...
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....
_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...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 25:29; Colossians 1:17; Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews 12:9; Job 12:10;
We are also his offspring. A line from Aratus, a poet of Paul's own province of Cilicia. The same sentiment, in almost the same words, occurs in the fine hymn of Cleanthes to Jove. Hence the words, "S...
In him — Not in ourselves, we live, and move, and have our being — This denotes his necessary, intimate, and most efficacious presence. No words can better express the continual and necessary dependen...
Why did Paul quote an uninspired pagan poet? (See comments on Titus 1:12)...