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But Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.
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For passing by and seeing your idols, I found an altar also, on which was written: To the Unknown God. What therefore you worship without knowing it, that I preach to you:
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God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.
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Neither is he served with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing: seeing it is he who giveth to all life and breath and all things:
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And hath made of one, all mankind, to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, determining appointed times and the limits of their habitation.
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That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us.
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For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.
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Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and device of man.
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And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men that all should every where do penance.
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Because he hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in equity, by the man whom he hath appointed: giving faith to all, by raising him up from the dead.
