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For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: `TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.` What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
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The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands,
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neither is he served by men`s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself gives to all life and breath, and all things.
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He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation,
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that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
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`For in him we live, and move, and have our being.` As some of your own poets have said, `For we are also his offspring.`
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Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and device of man.
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The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all men everywhere should repent,