neither is worshipped with( served by) men's hands The verb implies the sort of service yielded by a steward to his master, or a minister to his King, a service in which the superior is not independent of his inferior, and could not well do without him. This is seen in the next clause. God is not like earthly masters and kings. He gives all, and men can only offer to Him themselves in return. Cp. Psalms 50, 51 for like teaching.
Verse Acts 17:25. _NEITHER IS WORSHIPED WITH MEN'S HANDS_] This is an indirect stroke against making of images, and offering of sacrifices: he is not worshipped with _human hands, as if he needed_ _a...
NEITHER IS WORSHIPPED WITH MEN’S HANDS - The word here rendered “worshipped” (θεραπέυεται therapeuetai) denotes to “serve”; to wait upon; and then to render religious service or homage. There is refe...
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)...
WORSHIPPED. Greek. _therapeuo._ App-137. WITH. by. Greek. _hupo._ App-104. MEN'S. Greek. _anthropos._ App-123. AS THOUGH HE NEEDED. as needing. Greek. _prosdeomai._ Only here. ANY THING. something...
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...
ΟΥ̓ΔῈ ὙΠῸ ΧΕΙΡΩ͂Ν� _neither is served by men’s hands_. θεραπεύειν implies the sort of service yielded by a steward to his master, or a minister to his king, a service in which the superior is not inde...
_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...
ΑΝΘΡΏΠΙΝΟΣ (G73) человеческий. _Adj._ с этим окончанием обозначает материал, происхождение или род (МН, 359). ΘΕΡΑΠΕΎΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΘΕΡΑΠΕΎΩ (G2323) заботиться, помогать, служить, ΠΡΟΣΔ...
NEITHER IS WORSHIPPED WITH MEN'S HANDS,— _Neither is served_ θεραπευεται. This refers to the foolish notion among the heathens, that the gods fed on the fumes of sacrifices. Their votaries also clothe...
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...
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; NEITHER IS WORSHIPPED WITH MEN'S HANDS - or 'ministered to by human...
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...
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...
NEITHER IS WORSHIPPED WITH MEN’S HANDS, AS THOUGH HE NEEDED ANY THING. — Literally, _as needing anything in addition._ The previous words had struck at a false theory of temples, this strikes at a fal...
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...
οὐδὲ … θεραπεύεται : used in LXX and in classical Greek of the service of the Gods, significantly twice in _Epist. Jer_ [313], 17:27, 39, of the worshippers and priests of the idols overlaid with silv...
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...
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...
− 25._Neither is he worshipped with man’s hands. _The same question which was answered of late concerning the temple, may now be objected touching ceremonies. For it seemeth that that may be translate...
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...
NEITHER IS WORSHIPPED WITH MEN'S HANDS,.... Or "served" with them; or "ministered unto" by them, as the Syriac version renders it: and the sense is, that men by worshipping God do not give anything to...
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; Ver. 25. _Neither is worshipped_] _Colitur vel delinitur, _ collogued...
_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...
NEITHER IS WORSHIPED WITH MEN'S HANDS, AS THOUGH HE NEEDED ANYTHING, SEEING HE GIVETH TO ALL LIFE AND BREATH AND ALL THINGS;...
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...
NOR IS HE WORSHIPED WITH MEN ' S HANDS, AS THOUGH HE NEEDED ANYTHING, SINCE HE GIVES TO ALL LIFE, BREATH, AND ALL THINGS. 1. Omnipotent - God does not need men to serve Him. God does not need anythi...
"neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things"Neither is He served by men's hands, as though He needed anything...
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...
AS THOUGH HE NEEDED ANY THING; God is not worshipped or served by holy men, because he wants their service, or any thing that can be offered unto him by them; but because it is their duty and advantag...
Acts 17:25 Nor G3761 worshiped G2323 (G5743) with G5259 mens G444 hands G5495 needed G4326 (G5740) anything...
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 17:25. NEITHER IS HE WORSHIPPED WITH MEN'S HANDS, AS THOUGH HE NEEDED ANYTHING. The men of the heathen world loved to spend their wealth on the adornment of the temples of the gods, to whom also...
AS THOUGH HE NEEDED ANYTHING (προσδεομενος τινος). Present middle participle of προσδεομα, to want besides, old verb, but here only in the N.T. This was strange doctrine for the people thought that...
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...
_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,...
_Neither is worshipped with men’s hands._ CONTRAST BETWEEN GOD AND IDOLS Idols certainly require the care of human hands. There are still shops in the cities of India and China, with this inscriptio...
_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...
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 Timothy 6:17; Acts 14:17; Acts 17:28; Amos 5:21; Genesis 2:7;...
Is worshipped [θ ε ρ α π ε υ ε τ α ι]. Incorrect. Rendel; as Rev., served. Luke often uses the word in the sense of to heal or cure; but this is its primary sense. See on Luke verse 15. It refers to t...
Neither is he served as though he needed any thing — or person — The Greek word equally takes in both. To all — That live and breathe; — in him we live; and breathe — In him we move. By breathing life...