25Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. …
Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)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 were worshippers of the true and living God; and all they had to do with them was to open and allege that Jesus is the Christ ; but here we have a sermon to heathens, that worshipped false gods, and wer…
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