ACTS—NOTE ON Acts 17:28 some of your own poets. Instead of the OT, Paul quotes some statements from pagan Greek writers familiar to his audience. He quotes them with approval, but this does not imply that he approves of everything that these writers said or wrote. The first quotation (in him we live... ) appears to be from a hymn to Zeus by Epimenides of Crete (c. 600 B.C.). The second quotation is from the poem Phainomena by the Stoic poet Aratus (c. 315–240 B.C.).

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