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 repose; nor was the world a thing of chance as those philosophers taught, but God's own handiwork, and all things in it were of His creation.

seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth And therefore supreme possessor and disposer of all that is therein.

dwelleth not in temples made with hands Of which Athens had some of the most renowned in the world. A special interest attaches to these words as being so like those of Stephen (Acts 7:48). If true of the temple at Jerusalem, a fortiori, it is true of all Christian churches.

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