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"For you are bringingsomestrangethings to our ears; so we want to knowwhatthesethingsmean*."
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(Nowall the Athenians and the strangers1visiting there used to spend their time in nothingotherthantellingorhearingsomethingnew.)
Sermon on Mars Hill
22SoPaulstood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, "Men of 2Athens, I observe that you are very3religious in allrespects.
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"For while I was passingthrough and examining the 4objects of your worship, I alsofound an altar with thisinscription, 'TO AN UNKNOWNGOD.' Thereforewhat5you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
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"6The God who made the world and allthings in it, since He is 7Lord of heaven and earth, does not 8dwell in templesmade with hands;
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nor is He served by humanhands, 9as though He neededanything, since He Himselfgives to all people life and breath and allthings;
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and 10He made from one man everynation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having 11determined their appointedtimes and the boundaries of their habitation,
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that they would seekGod, ifperhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, 12though* He is not far from eachone of us;
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for 13in Him we live and move and exist, as evensome of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children.'
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"Beingthen the children of God, we 14ought not to think that the DivineNature is likegoldorsilverorstone, an imageformed by the art and thought of man.
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"Therefore having 15overlooked16the times of ignorance, God is 17nowdeclaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,