at were there employed
themselves in nothing else, but either in telling or in hearing some new
thing.)

17:22. But Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Ye men of
Athens, I perceive that in all things you are too superstitious.

17:23. 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:

17:24. God, who made the world and all things therein, he being Lord of
heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands.

Dwelleth not in temples... God is not contained in temples; so as to
need them for his dwelling, or any other uses, as the heathens imagined.
Yet by his omnipresence, he is both there and everywhere.

17:25. 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:

17:26. 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.

17:27. 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.

17:28. For in him we live and move and are: as some also of your own
poets said: For we are also his offspring.

17:29. 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.

17:30. And God indeed having winked at the times of this ignorance, now
declareth unto men that all should every where do penance.

17:31. 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.

17:32. And when they had heard of the resurrection of the dead, some
indeed mocked. But others said: We will hear thee again concerning this
matter.

17:33. So Paul went out from among them.

17:34. But certain men, adhering to him, did believe: among whom was
also Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with
them.

Acts Chapter 18

Paul founds the church of Corinth and preaches at Ephesus and in other
places. Apollo goes to Corinth.

18:1. After these things, departing from Athens, he came to Corinth.

18:2. And finding a certain Jew, named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately
come from Italy, with Priscilla his wife (because that Claudius had
commanded all Jews