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Acts 17:28-30
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Acts 17:28-30
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28 For in him we live and move about[a] and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’[b] 29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity[c] is like gold or silver or stone, an image[d] made by human[e] skill[f] and imagination.[g] 30 Therefore, although God has overlooked[h] such times of ignorance,[i] he now commands all people[j] everywhere to repent,[k]
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- Acts 17:28 tn According to L&N 15.1, “A strictly literal translation of κινέω in Ac 17:28 might imply merely moving from one place to another. The meaning, however, is generalized movement and activity; therefore, it may be possible to translate κινούμεθα as ‘we come and go’ or ‘we move about’ or even ‘we do what we do.’”
- Acts 17:28 sn This quotation is from Aratus (ca. 310-245 b.c.), Phaenomena 5. Paul asserted a general relationship and accountability to God for all humanity.
- Acts 17:29 tn Or “the divine being.” BDAG 446 s.v. θεῖος 1.b has “divine being, divinity” here.
- Acts 17:29 tn Or “a likeness.” Again idolatry is directly attacked as an affront to God and a devaluation of him.
- Acts 17:29 tn Grk “by the skill and imagination of man,” but ἀνθρώπου (anthrōpou) has been translated as an attributive genitive.
- Acts 17:29 tn Or “craftsmanship” (cf. BDAG 1001 s.v. τέχνη).
- Acts 17:29 tn Or “thought.” BDAG 336 s.v. ἐνθύμησις has “thought, reflection, idea” as the category of meaning here, but in terms of creativity (as in the context) the imaginative faculty is in view.
- Acts 17:30 tn Or “has deliberately paid no attention to.”
- Acts 17:30 tn Or “times when people did not know.”
- Acts 17:30 tn Here ἀνθρώποις (anthrōpois) has been translated as a generic noun (“people”).
- Acts 17:30 sn He now commands all people everywhere to repent. God was now asking all mankind to turn to him. No nation or race was excluded.
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