And Paul, having stood on the middle of Mars’ hill, said,
“Men, Athenians, I see in everything you are very religious, for coming through and seeing your objects of veneration I discovered also an altar on which had been inscribed, ‘To an Unknown God’. So he whom you reverence not knowing: him I’m proclaiming to you! 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, nor is he served by men’s hands as if he needs anything, himself giving life and breath to all in every way. And he made out of one blood every nation of men, to live on all the face of the earth, having pre-determined the time and the boundaries of their dwelling, to seek the Lord if perhaps they might feel after him and find him, though indeed being not far from each one of us, for in him we live and move and are, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
“So, being offspring of God we ought not to think the Divine One is like gold or silver or stone, a graven thing of art and man’s imagination. So indeed God, having overlooked the times of our ignorance, now commands all men everywhere to repent, because he has set a day in which he is going to judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, having given proof to everyone, having raised him from the dead.”
