ACTS 17:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.”
For as I walked around and observed your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD — Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you — The 'Unknown God' altar likely refers to dedicatory practices for unknown divine powers; Paul seizes this theological lacuna as opportunity for the gospel's insertion. The proclaimed God fills the unknown god-shaped void.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:23
more religiously disposed. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with his inscription, To an Unknown God. What therefore ye ignorantly worship, this declare I unto you. Acts 17:23— On which was inscribed, To an Unknown God. The Athenians, namely, as on many occasions they had received gods from foreign parts also — for instance, the temple of Minerva, Pan, and others from different countries — being afraid that there might be some other god not yet…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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