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;
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
God that made the world - The main object of this discourse of Paul is to convince them of the folly of idolatry Act 17:29, and thus to lead them to repentance. For this purpose he commences with a…
Adam Clarke
God that made the world, etc. - 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 popular; and the Stoics…
We have here St. Paul's sermon at Athens. Divers sermons we have had, which the apostles preached to the Jews, or such Gentiles as had an acquaintance with and veneration for the Old Testament, and…
Cambridge Bible
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…
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