Acts 17:28

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For in him we have life and motion and existence; as certain of your verse writers have said, For we are his offspring. Acts 17:28 (BBE)
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節の説明

Acts 17:28 shows Paul engaging a pagan audience without flattering paganism. He uses language from their world to expose their failure to know the God who gives life.

章の文脈

At the Areopagus Paul is not praising Athenian spirituality. He is confronting idolatry and pressing his hearers toward repentance by proclaiming the God they have ignored.

⚔️ 対峙

This verse is often used to justify vague spirituality. In context it does the opposite: God’s nearness in creation makes rebellion more guilty, not less.

🧭 解釈上の注意

Paul is not endorsing pagan poets wholesale. He is seizing a true fragment in order to press home the claims of the living God.

他の聖書箇所との関連
Isaiah 42:5 テキストに移動

Isaiah also ties life and breath directly to God’s sustaining action.

Colossians 1:16-17 テキストに移動

Paul later roots all created life and continued coherence in Christ himself.

教えのポイント

  • Common language can be used missionally without surrendering revelation.
  • God’s sustaining presence leaves humanity without excuse.
  • Faithful witness exposes idolatry rather than decorating it.
聖書研究の質問
  • Where do modern Christians confuse cultural contact with spiritual approval?
  • How does Paul move from shared language to a call for repentance?
Acts 17:22-31 Deep

Creation apologetics becomes a summons to repent before the risen Judge

開く
章に移動

Paul does not stop at common ground. He moves from the God who made all things to the command that all people everywhere must repent because the risen man appointed by God will judge the world.

人物、場所、出来事、背景

ユーザー

Paul Paul models bold, intelligent witness before a skeptical elite audience.

Athenian philosophers Stoic and Epicurean listeners represent a culture that was intellectually alive and spiritually blind.

場所

Areopagus A public civic-philosophical setting where Paul addresses the city’s thought-world directly.

出来事

Areopagus address This sermon moves from creation and providence to repentance and coming judgment.

文化的背景

Quoted pagan poets Paul cites familiar lines from Greek culture, not to baptize pagan religion, but to show that even their own words leave them accountable before God.

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ASV
for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
BSB
‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’
DBY
for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.
DRA
For in him we live, and move, and are; as some also of your own poets said: For we are also his offspring.
FBV
In him we live, move, and exist. Just as one of your own poets wrote, ‘We are his family.’”
GNV
For in him we liue, and mooue, and haue our being, as also certaine of your owne Poets haue sayd, for we are also his generation.
KJV
For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
OJB
For “we live in Him and in Him we move and have our being,” as also some of your poets have said, “For we are all His offspring.”