Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 17:24
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
IN THESSALONICA (Acts 17:1-9)...
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...
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;...
_God that made the world_, &c. Better, THE _God_, &c., which is specially needed when the neuter pronouns are read in the previous verse. This was no Epicurean god, who dwelt apart and in constant re...
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...
ὙΠΆΡΧΩΝ ΚΎΡΙΟΣ, with אABE. _Vulg_. ‘cum sit dominus.’ 24. Ὁ ΘΕῸΣ Ὁ ΠΟΙΉΣΑΣ ΤῸΝ ΚΌΣΜΟΝ, _the God that made the world_. He whom the Apostle set forth was no Epicurean divinity, dwelling apart and in co...
_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...
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...
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 -...
See notes on verse 22...
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 profoun...
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...
Creation was altogether denied by the Epicureans, who regarded the atoms of matter as eternal; and only imperfectly recognised by the Stoics, who were pantheists, and did not regard the Divine Person...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
− 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...
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...
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...
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 _"_...
_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...
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....
The first part of Paul's speech:...
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,...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
Acts 17:24 God G2316 made G4160 (G5660) world G2889 and G2532 everything G3956 in G1722 it G846 He...
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...
“The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands, nor is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing h...
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...
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...
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,...
_God._ All the Indo-European equivalents for God are the same in their ultimate root as the word “day,” and signify the brightness of the sky. The Latin _Deus, _the Greek _Theos, _the Sanskrit _Dyaus,...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 17:24 Paul speaks of THE GOD WHO MADE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT, including mankind. He identifies this one true God as superior to all the lesser, competing gods worshiped in At...
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 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:6; 2 Chronicles 6:18; 2 Kings 19:15;...
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,...
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...