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having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought [him], saying, `Are we able to know what [is] this new teaching that is spoken by thee,
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for certain strange things thou dost bring to our ears? we wish, then, to know what these things would wish to be;'
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and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.
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And Paul, having stood in the midst of the Areopagus, said, `Men, Athenians, in all things I perceive you as over-religious;
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for passing through and contemplating your objects of worship, I found also an erection on which had been inscribed: To God -- unknown; whom, therefore -- not knowing -- ye do worship, this One I announce to you.
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`God, who did make the world, and all things in it, this One, of heaven and of earth being Lord, in temples made with hands doth not dwell,
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neither by the hands of men is He served -- needing anything, He giving to all life, and breath, and all things;
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He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth -- having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings --
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to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, -- though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,
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for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.
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`Being, therefore, offspring of God, we ought not to think the Godhead to be like to gold, or silver, or stone, graving of art and device of man;