Atos 17:24

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O Deus que fez o mundo e tudo o que nele existe, sendo ele Senhor do cu e da terra, no habita em santurios feitos por mos humanas.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
O Deus que fez o mundo e tudo que nele h, sendo Senhor do cu e da terra, no habita em templos feitos por mos de homens;

Almeida Revista e Corrigida
O Deus que fez o mundo e tudo que nele h, sendo Senhor do cu e da terra, no habita em templos feitos por mos de homens.

Bible Verse Review
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that made: Acts 17:26-28, Acts 4:24, Acts 14:15, Psalms 146:5, Isaiah 40:12, Isaiah 40:28, Isaiah 45:18, Jeremiah 10:11, Jeremiah 32:17, Zechariah 12:1, John 1:1, Hebrews 1:2, Hebrews 3:4

seeing: Genesis 14:19, Genesis 14:22, 2 Kings 19:15, Psalms 24:1, Psalms 115:16, Psalms 148:13, Jeremiah 23:24, Daniel 4:35, Matthew 5:34, Matthew 11:25, Luke 10:21, Revelation 20:11

dwelleth: Acts 7:48, 1 Kings 8:27, 2 Chronicles 2:6, 2 Chronicles 6:18, Isaiah 66:1, John 4:22, John 4:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:1 - God Genesis 1:29 - I have Exodus 6:2 - I am the Lord Psalms 100:3 - Know Jeremiah 27:5 - made Jeremiah 51:15 - hath made Daniel 4:37 - the King John 1:10 - was in Colossians 2:11 - without Hebrews 9:11 - not made Hebrews 11:3 - faith Revelation 4:11 - for thou

Gill's Notes on the Bible

God that made the world, and all things therein,.... In this account of the divine Being, as the Creator of the world, and all things in it, as the apostle agrees with Moses, and the rest of the sacred Scriptures; so he condemns both the notion of the Epicurean philosophers, who denied that the world was made by God, but said that it owed its being to a fortuitous concourse of atoms; and the notion of the Peripatetics, or Aristotelians, who asserted the eternity of the world; and some of both sects were doubtless present.

Seeing that he is the Lord of heaven and earth; as appears by his being the Creator of both; hence he supports them in their being, and governs all creatures in them by his providence.

Dwelleth not in temples made with hands; such as were the idol temples at Athens; nor in any other edifices built by man, so as to be there fixed and limited; no, not in the temple at Jerusalem: but he dwells in temples that are not made with hands, as in the temple of Christ's human nature, in which the fulness of the Godhead dwells bodily, and in the hearts of his people, who are the temples of the Holy Ghost. This strikes at a notion of the Athenians, as if God was limited, and circumscribed, and included within the bounds of a shrine, or temple, though it is not at all contrary to his promises, or the hopes of his own people, of his presence in places appointed for divine worship, but is expressive of the infinity and immensity of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God that made the world - The main object of this discourse of Paul is to convince them of the folly of idolatry Acts 17:29, and thus to lead them to repentance. For this purpose he commences with a statement of the true doctrine respecting God as the Creator of all things. We may observe here:

(1) That he speaks here of God as the Creator of the world, thus opposing indirectly their opinions that there were many gods.

(2) He speaks of him as the Creator of the world, and thus opposes the opinion that matter was eternal; that all things were controlled by Fate; and that God could be confined to temples. The Epicureans held that matter was eternal, and that the world was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms. To this opinion Paul opposed the doctrine that all things were made by one God. Compare Acts 14:15.

Seeing that ... - Greek: “He being Lord of heaven and earth.”

Lord of heaven and earth - Proprietor and Ruler of heaven and earth. It is highly absurd, therefore, to suppose that he who is present in heaven and in earth at the same time, and who rules over all, should be confined to a temple of an earthly structure, or dependent on man for anything.

Dwelleth not ... - See the notes on Acts 7:48.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 17:24. God that made the world, c.] Though the Epicureans held that the world was not made by God, but was the effect of a fortuitous concourse of atoms, yet this opinion was not popular and the Stoics held the contrary:

1. St. Paul assumes, as an acknowledged truth, that there was a God who made the world and all things.

2. That this God could not be confined within temples made with hands, as he was the Lord or governor of heaven and earth.

3. That, by fair consequence, the gods whom they worshipped, which were shut up in their temples could not be this God; and they must be less than the places in which they were contained. This was a strong, decisive stroke against the whole system of the Grecian idolatry.