Hechos 17:27

27 para que buscaran a Dios, si en alguna manera, palpando, le hallen; aunque cierto no está lejos de cada uno de nosotros

Hechos 17:27 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 17:27

That they should seek the Lord
Or "God", as the Alexandrian copy and others, and the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions read; their Creator, and kind Benefactor, and who has appointed their time of life, and their habitations for them; and this should engage them to seek to know him, who has done all this for them, and to fear and serve him, and to glorify his name:

if haply they might feel after him, and find him;
which shows, that though it is possible for men, by a contemplation of the perfections of God, visible in the works of creation and providence, so to find God, as to know that there is one, and that there is but one God, who has made all things; and so as to be convinced of the vanity and falsehood of all other gods, and to see the folly, wickedness, and weakness of idolatrous worship; yet, at the same time, it very strongly intimates, how dim and obscure the light of nature is; since those, who have nothing else to direct them, are like persons in the dark, who "feel" and grope about after God, whom they cannot see; and after all their search and groping, there is only an "haply", a peradventure, a may be, that they find him:

though he be not far from everyone of us;
not only by his omnipresence, and immensity, whereby he is everywhere; but by his power in supporting all in their being; and by his goodness in continually communicating the blessings of providence to them.

Hechos 17:27 In-Context

25 ni es honrado con manos de hombres, necesitado de algo; pues él da a todos vida, y respiración, y todas las cosas

26 y de una sangre ha hecho todo el linaje de los hombres, para que habitaran sobre toda la faz de la tierra; determinando las sazones (las cuales limitó) y puestos los términos de la habitación de ellos

27 para que buscaran a Dios, si en alguna manera, palpando, le hallen; aunque cierto no está lejos de cada uno de nosotros

28 porque en él vivimos, y nos movemos, y somos; como también algunos de vuestros poetas dijeron: Porque linaje de éste somos también

29 Siendo pues linaje de Dios, no hemos de estimar la Divinidad ser semejante a oro, o a plata, o a piedra, con la marca de artificio o de imaginación de hombres