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Acts 17:28
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Acts 17:28
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
28 For ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’[a] as even some of your poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’
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- 17:28 ‘In him we live and move and have our being’: some scholars understand this saying to be based on an earlier saying of Epimenides of Knossos (6th century B.C.). ‘For we too are his offspring’: here Paul is quoting Aratus of Soli, a third-century B.C. poet from Cilicia.
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