Hechos 17:27

27 »Su propósito era que las naciones buscaran a Dios y, quizá acercándose a tientas, lo encontraran; aunque él no está lejos de ninguno 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 y las manos humanas no pueden servirlo, porque él no tiene ninguna necesidad. Él es quien da vida y aliento a todo y satisface cada necesidad.

26 De un solo hombre
creó todas las naciones de toda la tierra. De antemano decidió cuándo se levantarían y cuándo caerían, y determinó los límites de cada una.

27 »Su propósito era que las naciones buscaran a Dios y, quizá acercándose a tientas, lo encontraran; aunque él no está lejos de ninguno de nosotros.

28 Pues en él vivimos, nos movemos y existimos. Como dijeron algunos de sus
propios poetas: “Nosotros somos su descendencia”.

29 Y, como esto es cierto, no debemos pensar en Dios como un ídolo diseñado por artesanos y hecho de oro, plata o piedra.