in every respect remarkably religious.
017:023 For as I passed along and observed the things you worship, I found
also an altar bearing the inscription, `TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.'
"The Being, therefore, whom you, without knowing Him, revere,
Him I now proclaim to you.
017:024 GOD who made the universe and everything in it--He, being Lord
of Heaven and earth, does not dwell in sanctuaries built by men.
017:025 Nor is He ministered to by human hands, as though He needed anything--
but He Himself gives to all men life and breath and all things.
017:026 He caused to spring from one forefather people of every race,
for them to live on the whole surface of the earth, and marked
out for them an appointed span of life and the boundaries
of their homes;
017:027 that they might seek God, if perhaps they could grope for Him
and find Him. Yes, though He is not far from any one of us.
017:028 For it is in closest union with Him that we live and move
and have our being; as in fact some of the poets in repute
among yourselves have said, `For we are also His offspring.'
017:029 Since then we are God's offspring, we ought not to imagine
that His nature resembles gold or silver or marble, or anything
sculptured by the art and inventive faculty of man.
017:030 Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence.
But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,
017:031 seeing that He has appointed a day on which, before long,
He will judge the world in righteousness, through the
instrumentality of a man whom He has pre-destined to this work,
and has made the fact certain to every one by raising Him
from the dead."
017:032 When they heard Paul speak of a resurrection of dead men,
some began to scoff. But others said, "We will hear you