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absurdity Agora altar announcement apostle apostle's Aratus Areopagus asserted assured Atheism Athenians Athens Authorised Version believe Bible brought called Christianity church claims Comp creation creatures darkness dead deity Dionysius the Areopagite discourse divine doctrine earth Epicureans eternal everywhere to repent existence fact father fatherhood fatherly favour feelings glory God's gods gospel graven by art Greek ground hand hath hearers heart heathen heaven Hierocles human race idea idolatry igno Infinite Jews judge the world judgment king light Lord means mind moral national Israel nations nature outward Paul PAUL'S philosophy preached reason recognise rection relation religion religious resurrection revelation righteousness salvation says Scripture sense Simon Magus sinner sons of God soul speak spiritual strange suppose teaches term ignorance things thought Thucyd tion true truth unity universe UNKNOWN GOD unto utter utterly whilst whole wisdom words worship writer Zaleucus
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Page xiv - God winked at ; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent : because He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom He hath ordained ; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked : and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.
Page xiv - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; 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 certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page xiii - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else,, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing...
Page 32 - But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up. take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
Page 151 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead ; so that they are without excuse. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations. and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible...
Page 132 - To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.
Page xiii - For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 263 - Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant. But man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he...
Page 188 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page xiii - Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say ? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods : because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.