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they might find, though He is not far from each one of us. For in Him we live and move and have our being, as even some of your own poets have said: "3For we are also His offspring."3 7.40 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the divine is like gold, or silver, or stone, a graven thing of art and man's device. The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked, but now He commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has fixed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness, by a man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all, by raising Him from the dead," saying nothing to these beyond what he had formerly said to the believers from among the Jews and Greeks, that God, being uncircumscribed and all-powerful, will judge the world in righteousness in the man whom He raised from the dead as a pledge to all men, appointing Him judge of all. Likewise the Apostle said of Him, "And He made Him sit at His right hand," and John the Baptist likewise said the winnowing fork is in His hand, and He will separate the wheat from the chaff, handing over to punishments the sinners who are like chaff separated from the wheat. 7.41 Whence some of them believed, as it is written, but some "mocked when they heard of the resurrection of the dead"; and some again said, "What would this babbler say?" as if he were digging up our seeds; but others said, "We will hear you again about this"; and again others, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities, because, says Luke, he preached Jesus and the resurrection"; and again others, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are speaking?" And, to put it simply, most of them mocked Paul for discoursing at all about the resurrection of the dead. 7.42 And when Paul, being accused by the Jews, stood before the tribunal before Festus the governor and Agrippa the king, to relate the power of what had been done beforehand, Festus said to Agrippa that "they have certain questions" against each other "about their own superstition," both Paul and the Jews, "and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive"; Paul, having been permitted by them, cried out with boldness and a loud voice, "Concerning which hope I am accused by the Jews, O king, why is it judged incredible among you if God raises the dead?" Then again: "For this reason, they seized me while I was in the temple and tried to kill me. Having therefore obtained help from God, I stand to this day, testifying both to small and great, saying nothing beyond what both the prophets and Moses said would happen: that the Christ must suffer, that as the first from the resurrection of the dead, He would proclaim light both to the people and to the Gentiles." 7.43 Likewise again, when urged by them to speak to the unbelieving Jews themselves in Antioch of Pisidia, what does he say? "Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen: The God of this people Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people in their sojourn in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm He brought them out of it, and for about a forty-year period He put up with them in the wilderness, and having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He gave them their land as an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years; and after these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet; and from there they asked for a king, and He gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man from the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years; and having removed him He raised up David for them as king, to whom also He testified and said, "3I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will."3. 7.44 From this man's seed God, according to His promise, brought to Israel salvation, John having proclaimed before His coming a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel; and as John was finishing his course, he said: 'What do you suppose that I am? I am not he. But behold, one is coming after me, the sandal of whose

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