Acts 17:27

θεόν for κύριον with אABHL. Vulg. ‘Deum.’

27. ζητεῖν τὸν θεόν, that they should seek God. This was the lesson which God meant His creation and providence to teach. Men were to behold Him through His works.

εἰ ἄρα γε ψηλαφήσειαν αὐτὸν καὶ εὕροιεν, if haply they might feel after Him and find Him. The world was to be man’s lesson-book, open before all men. In it they could read everywhere of Almighty power and care and love. Thus stimulated, a desire to know more might grow; and by efforts, which the graphic word of the Apostle compares to the exertion of one groping in the dark, more knowledge would come, and at last the full discovery would be made. God would be found. He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

καί γε οὐ μακρὰν�, though He be not far from every one of us. And so can reveal Himself according to the measure of the zeal shewn by those who seek Him.