ACTS 17:30 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:”
In the past God overlooked such ignorance (agnosia), but now he commands all people everywhere to repent — The shift from overlooking (hupereidō, to disregard) to commanding (paraggellō, to order authoritatively) marks eschatological urgency. Divine patience with idolatry has yielded; now repentance is an imperative, not suggestion.
Church Fathers on Acts 17:30
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art. Acts 17:29 And yet for this reason we ought. By no means: for surely we are not like (to such), nor are these souls of ours. And imagination of man. How so? * * But some person might say, We do not think this. But it was to the many that he was addressing himself, not now to Philosophy. How then did they think so unworthily of Him? Again,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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