ACTS 17:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:”
God did this so that all people would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him — though he is not far from any one of us — The purpose clause reveals divine intent: all nations' dispersal aims at universal seeking (zēteō, to seek earnestly). The paradox stands: though God seems distant via unknown altars, he remains proximate ('not far from any one of us').
Church Fathers on Acts 17:27
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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