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28 for ain Him we live and move and have our being, bas also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’  
29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, awe ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising.  
30 Truly, athese times of ignorance God overlooked, but bnow commands all men everywhere to repent,  
31 because He has appointed a day on which aHe will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by braising Him from the dead.”  
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.”
33 So Paul departed from among them.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Acts 17:30

the times of this ignorance God winked at—literally (and far better), "overlooked," that is, bore with, without interposing to punish it, otherwise than suffering the debasing tendency of such worship to develop itself (compare Acts 14:16, and see on Romans 1:24, etc.).

but now—that a new light was risen upon the world.

commandeth—"That duty—all along lying upon man estranged from his Creator, but hitherto only silently recommending itself and little felt—is now peremptory."

all men every where to repent—(compare Colossians 1:6, Colossians 1:23; Titus 1:11) —a tacit allusion to the narrow precincts of favored Judaism, within which immediate and entire repentance was ever urged. The word "repentance" is here used (as in Luke 13:3, Luke 13:5; Luke 15:10) in its most comprehensive sense of "repentance unto life."




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 17:30:

Job 24:12
Acts 14:16
Ephesians 4:18

 

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