ACTS 17:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;”
And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything — Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else — The logic is stark: divine self-sufficiency (mē hyp' anthrōpōn diakonoumai, not served by humans) means the human economy of sacrifice and appeasement becomes theologically redundant. God's generosity (the dative of receiver emphasizes what God gives) precedes all human response.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:25
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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