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Kisah Para Rasul 17:24

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Athens;   Gentiles;   God;   God Continued...;   Mars' Hill;   Paul;   Readings, Select;   Religion;   Worship;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Creator;   God;   Government;   Sovereignty of God;   Spirit;   The Topic Concordance - Children;   Creation;   God;   Life;   Man;   Nations;   Predestination;   Seeking;   World;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Creation;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Areopagus;   Providence;   Thessalonica;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Areopagus;   Athens;   Creation;   God;   Jesus christ;   Mission;   Paul;   Stoics;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Providence of God;   Religion;   World;   Zechariah, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Areopagus;   Heaven;   Mars Hill;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Acts of the Apostles;   Epicureans;   Paul;   Roman Empire;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Art and Aesthetics;   Athens;   Greece;   Lord;   Preaching in the Bible;   Revelation of God;   World, the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Epicureans;   Idolatry;   Thessalonians, First Epistle to the;   World;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Alpha and Omega (2);   God;   Hand;   Inspiration and Revelation;   Lord;   Master;   Quotations;   Simon Magus;   Wisdom;   World;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Philosopher, Philosophy;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Areopagus;   Athens;   Jason;   Mars;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mars' Hill,;   Paul;   Roman Empire;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Athens;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Saul of Tarsus;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Doctrine;   Father, God the;   Philosophy;   Unknown God;   World (Cosmological);  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 8;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka Allah, yang menjadikan dunia dengan segala isinya, Ialah, yang menjadi Tuhan langit dan bumi, tiada mendiami rumah-rumah berhala yang diperbuat dengan tangan,

Contextual Overview

22 Then Paul stoode in the myddes of Marce streate, and sayde: ye men of Athens, I perceaue that in all thynges ye are to superstitious. 23 For as I passed by, and behelde the maner howe ye worship your gods, I founde an aulter, wherin was written, vnto the vnknowe god. Whom ye then ignorauntly worship, him shewe I vnto you. 24 God that made the worlde, & all that are in it, seing that he is Lorde of heaue and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with handes: 25 Neither is worshipped with mens handes, as though he needed of any thing, seing he him selfe geueth life and breath to all, euery where. 26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all ye face of the earth, & hath determined the tymes before appoynted, and also the boundes of their habitation: 27 That they shoulde seke the Lorde, yf perhappes they myght haue felt and founde hym, though he be not farre fro euery one of vs. 28 For in hym we liue, and moue, & haue our beyng, as certaine of your owne poetes sayde: for we are also his offpryng. 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offpring of God, we ought not to thynke that the Godhead is lyke vnto golde, siluer, or stone, grauen by art, and mans deuice. 30 And the tyme of this ignoraunce God wyncked at: but nowe byddeth all men euery where to repent: 31 Because he hath appoynted a day in the which he wyll iudge the worlde in ryghteousnesse, by that man by whom he hath appoynted, and hath offered fayth to all men, in that he hath raysed hym from the dead.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Cross-References

Genesis 12:4
And so Abram departed, euen as the Lorde had spoken vnto hym, and Lot went with him: and Abram was seuentie and fiue yeres old when he departed out of Haran.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninetie yere olde and nine, the Lorde appeared to hym, and sayde vnto hym: I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect.
Genesis 17:17
But Abraham fell vppon his face, and laughed, and sayde in his heart: shall a chylde be borne vnto hym that is an hundreth yere olde? And shall Sara that is ninetie yere olde beare?
Genesis 17:19
Unto who God sayd: Sara thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, & thou shalt call his name Isahac: and I wyll establishe my couenaunt with hym for an euerlastyng couenaunt [and] with his seede after hym.
Genesis 17:20
And as concernyng Ismael also I haue hearde thee: for I haue blessed him, and wyll make him fruitefull, and wyl multiplie him excedingly: Twelue princes shall he beget, and I wyll make a great nation of hym.
Romans 4:11
And he receaued the signe of circumcision, as the seale of the ryghteousnesse of fayth, whiche he had yet beyng vncircumcised, that he shoulde be the father of al them that beleue, though they be not circumcised, that ryghteousnes myght be imputed vnto them also.

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.


 
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