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1434 The Acts of the Apostles

But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of 30 And God indeed having winked at the
new gods; because he preached to them Jesus times of this ignorance, now declareth unto men,
and the resurrection. that all should every where do penance.
19 And taking him, they brought him to the 31 Because he hath appointed a day wherein
Areopagus, saying: May we know what this new he will judge the world in equity, by the man
doctrine is, which thou speakest of? whom he hath appointed; giving faith to all, by
20 For thou bringest in certain new things to raising him up from the dead.
our ears. We would know therefore what these 32 And when they had heard of the resurrec-
things mean. tion of the dead, some indeed mocked, but oth-
21 (Now all the Athenians, and strangers that ers said: We will hear thee again concerning this
were there, employed themselves in nothing else, matter.
but either in telling or in hearing some new 33 So Paul went out from among them.
thing.) 34 But certain men adhering to him, did be-
22 But Paul standing in the midst of the Are- lieve; among whom was also Dionysius, the Are-
opagus, said: Ye men of Athens, I perceive that opagite, and a woman named Damaris, and oth-
in all things you are too superstitious. ers with them.
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, Chapter 18

without knowing it, that I preach to you:
24 God, who made the world, and all things After these things, departing from Athens, he
therein; he, being Lord of heaven and earth, came to Corinth.
dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 2 And finding a certain Jew, named Aquila,
25 Neither is he served with men’s hands, as born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with
though he needed any thing; seeing it is he who Priscilla his wife, (because that Claudius had
giveth to all life, and breath, and all things: commanded all Jews to depart from Rome,) he
26 And hath made of one, all mankind, to came to them.
dwell upon the whole face of the earth, deter- 3 And because he was of the same trade, he
mining appointed times, and the limits of their remained with them, and wrought; (now they
habitation. were tentmakers by trade.)
27 That they should seek God, if happily they 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sab-
may feel after him or find him, although he be bath, bringing in the name of the Lord Jesus;
not far from every one of us: and he persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
28 For in him we live, and move, and are; as 5 And when Silas and Timothy were come
some also of your own poets said: For we are from Macedonia, Paul was earnest in preaching,
also his offspring. testifying to the Jews, that Jesus is the Christ.
29 Being therefore the offspring of God, we 6 But they gainsaying and blaspheming, he
must not suppose the divinity to be like unto shook his garments, and said to them: Your
gold, or silver, or stone, the graving of art, and blood be upon your own heads; I am clean: from
device of man. henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles.