ACTS 17:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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;”
The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands — Paul pivots immediately from the altar to creational theology: God transcends spatial localization (mē en cheiropoiētois, not in human-made things). This refutes both Stoic pantheism and Epicurean remoteness, asserting God's creative lordship.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:24
dwells not in temples made with hands Acts 17:24, neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything — do you observe how, little by little, he brings in the philosophy? How he ridicules the heathen error? seeing it is He that gives to all life, and breath, and all things; and has made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth. This is peculiar to God. Look, then, whether these things may not be predicated of the Son also.…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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