Hechos 17:29

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

Hechos 17:29 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 17:29

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God
In the sense before given; for the apostle is not here speaking of himself, and other saints, as being the children of God, by adoption, and by regenerating grace, and faith in Christ Jesus, but as men in common with others, and with these Athenians:

we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver,
or stone, graven by art and man's device;
for men themselves, who are the offspring of God, and made after his image, are not to be compared to graven images of gold, silver, and stone, but are vastly preferable to them, they being formed by their art, and the device of their minds; and much less then should God, the Creator of men, and from whom they spring, be likened to, or represented by, any such thing; for so to think of God, is to think very unworthily of him; for if to think thus of ourselves, who are descended from him, would be a debasing of us, then much more to think so of God, the Father of spirits, must be a depreciating of him; and which by no means ought to be done, and argues great stupidity: if living rational creatures are not to be equalled to, and compared with, senseless statues, much less God, the former of men and angels.

Hechos 17:29 In-Context

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

30 Así que Dios, habiendo pasado por alto los tiempos de esta ignorancia, ahora denuncia a todos los hombres en todos los lugares que se arrepientan

31 por cuanto ha establecido un día, en el cual ha de juzgar con justicia a todo el mundo, por aquel varón al cual determinó; dando fe a todos con haberle levantado de los muertos