28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
28 for "'In him we live and move and have our being';
28 We live and move in him, can't get away from him! One of your poets said it well: 'We're the God-created.'
28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also His offspring.'
28 For in him we live and move and exist. As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 17:28
Commentary on Acts 17:22-31
(Read Acts 17:22-31)
Here we have a sermon to heathens, who worshipped false gods, and were without the true God in the world; and to them the scope of the discourse was different from what the apostle preached to the Jews. In the latter case, his business was to lead his hearers by prophecies and miracles to the knowledge of the Redeemer, and faith in him; in the former, it was to lead them, by the common works of providence, to know the Creator, and worship Him. The apostle spoke of an altar he had seen, with the inscription, "TO THE UNKNOWN GOD." This fact is stated by many writers. After multiplying their idols to the utmost, some at Athens thought there was another god of whom they had no knowledge. And are there not many now called Christians, who are zealous in their devotions, yet the great object of their worship is to them an unknown God? Observe what glorious things Paul here says of that God whom he served, and would have them to serve. The Lord had long borne with idolatry, but the times of this ignorance were now ending, and by his servants he now commanded all men every where to repent of their idolatry. Each sect of the learned men would feel themselves powerfully affected by the apostle's discourse, which tended to show the emptiness or falsity of their doctrines.