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that God is served by human hands, he hints that he is served by thought and mind. This one, he says, is Lord of heaven and earth. Therefore not the partial demons. The God that made the world, and all things therein. Having first shown how heaven was made, he then declared that he does not dwell in temples made with hands, as if he said: If he is God, he evidently made all things; but if he did not make them, he is not God. The gods, he says, that have not made the heavens and the earth, let them perish. He introduces doctrines much greater than theirs (although he had not yet said the great things; for it was not yet time; but he spoke as to children), the creation, the lordship, the all-sufficiency. 3. And having said that he made every nation of men from one blood, he showed the cause of all good things. What is equal to this high saying? For it is wonderful to have made so many from one; but for him to hold all together is much more wonderful still. For giving, he says, to all breath and life. What is the meaning of, Having determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation, that they should seek God, if haply they might feel after him and find him? That no one, he says, was compelled to go about and seek God; or if not this, that he appointed to seek God. But he did not appoint this for all time, but The times before appointed. He says this, showing that not even now did they find him by seeking, and yet he was so manifest to be found, as if something in the middle being felt. For it was not that here was heaven, and elsewhere not; nor that it was at this time, and at another not. So that at every time, and in every bound, it is possible to find him. Thus he ordained that he should be sought, so as to be hindered neither by place nor by time. And this very thing especially helped them, if they were willing, that heaven is everywhere, that it stands in all time. Therefore he also said thus: Though he be not far from every one of us, but is near to all. And what he says is this: Not only did he give life and breath and all things; but also the chief of all things, he led to the knowledge of himself, giving these things, through which we are able to find and comprehend him. But we were not willing to seek, though he was before our feet. Not far, he says, from every one of us. Amazing! He says he is near to all who are everywhere in the world. What is greater than this? See how he also puts down the partial ones. Why do I say far? He is so near, that without him we do not live. For in him we live, and move, and have our being. As in a bodily example he says something like this: just as it is impossible to be ignorant of the air which is poured out everywhere, and not far from every one of us, but rather even in us; so also the creator of all things. See how he says all things are his: his providence, he says, and his upholding, our being from him, our acting, our not perishing. And he did not say, Through him, 60.272 but what was nearer, In him. That poet said nothing equal when he said, For we are also his offspring; but he spoke of Zeus, while this one takes it of the Creator, not saying the same as he, God forbid, but applying the things properly said of him. Since he also spoke of this one's altar, not that one's, which they worshipped. For some things are said and done to this one, but the Greeks do not know that it is to him, but they have understood them as referring to another. For tell me, of whom could it be properly said, To the Unknown God, of the Creator, or of the demon? Clearly of the Creator, even if they were ignorant of the one, and knew the other. Likewise also that he made all things, would it be properly said of God, or of Zeus, some foul and despicable man and a sorcerer. Thus Paul did not say it in the same way as that one, God forbid, and the, For we are also his offspring; but with another mind. For he said we are the offspring of God; that is, his own, very near; or as one might say, sojourners and neighbors. For lest they should say again, You bring strange things to our ears (for nothing is so contrary to men), he brings the poet into the midst. And he did not say: You ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, O foul and all-foul men; but more humbly, This we ought not

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ὑπὸ χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων θεραπεύεσθαι τὸν Θεὸν, αἰνίττεται, ὅτι διανοίᾳ καὶ νῷ θεραπεύεται. Οὗτος, φησὶν, οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς Κύριος. Οὐκοῦν οὐχ οἱ μερικοὶ δαίμονες. Ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ποιήσας τὸν κόσμον, καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ. Πῶς οὐρανὸς γέγονε, πρότερον δείξας, τότε ἀπεφήνατο, ὅτι οὐκ ἐν χειροποιήτοις κατοικεῖ, ὡσεὶ ἔλεγεν· Εἰ Θεὸς, πάντα ἐποίησε δηλόνοτι· εἰ δὲ μὴ ἐποίησεν, οὐ Θεός. Θεοὶ, οἳ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν, φησὶν, οὐκ ἐποίησαν, ἀπολέσθωσαν. Πολλῷ μείζονα ἐκείνων δόγματα εἰσάγει (καίτοι οὐδέπω τὰ μεγάλα εἶπεν· οὔπω γὰρ καιρός· ἀλλ' ὡς παισὶ διελέγετο), τὴν δημιουργίαν, τὴν κυριότητα, τὸ ἀνενδεές. γʹ. Εἰπὼν δὲ, ὅτι πᾶν ἔθνος ἀνθρώπων ἐξ ἑνὸς αἵματος ἐποίησε, τὸ πάντων αἴτιον τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἐδήλωσε. Τί τούτου τοῦ ὑψηλοῦ ἴσον; Θαυμαστὸν μὲν γὰρ καὶ τὸ ἐξ ἑνὸς ποιῆσαι τοσούτους· τὸ δὲ πάντας αὐτὸν συγκρατεῖν, ἔτι πολλῷ θαυμαστότερον. ∆ιδοὺς γὰρ, φησὶ, πᾶσι πνοὴν καὶ ζωήν. Τί ἐστιν, Ὁρίσας προστεταγμένους καιροὺς, καὶ τὰς ὁροθεσίας τῆς κατοικίας αὐτῶν, ζητεῖν τὸν Θεὸν, εἰ ἄρα γε ψηλαφήσειαν αὐτὸν καὶ εὕροιεν; Ὅτι οὐκ ἠναγκάζετό τις, φησὶ, περιιέναι καὶ ζητεῖν τὸν Θεόν· ἢ εἰ μὴ τοῦτο, ὅτι ὥρισε ζητῆσαι τὸν Θεόν. Ἀλλ' οὐ διαπαντὸς τοῦτο ὥρισεν, ἀλλὰ Προστεταγμένους καιρούς. Τοῦτο δὲ λέγει, δεικνὺς ὅτι οὐδὲ νῦν ζητήσαντες εὗρον, καίτοι οὕτως ἦν φανερὸς πρὸς τὸ εὑρίσκεσθαι, ὥσπερ ἂν εἰς μέσον τι ψηλαφώμενον. Οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐνταῦθα μὲν ἦν οὐρανὸς, ἀλλαχοῦ δὲ οὔ· οὐδὲ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ χρόνῳ ἦν, ἐν ἄλλῳ δὲ οὔ. Ὥστε καὶ κατὰ πάντα καιρὸν, καὶ κατὰ πᾶσαν ὁροθεσίαν δυνατὸν αὐτὸν εὑρεῖν. Οὕτως ᾠκονόμησε τὸ ζητεῖσθαι, ὥστε μήτε τόπῳ κωλύεσθαι, μήτε χρόνῳ. Καὶ αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο μάλιστα αὐτοῖς συνεβάλλετο, εἴ γε ἠβούλοντο, τὸ πανταχοῦ εἶναι τὸν οὐρανὸν, τὸ ἐν παντὶ χρόνῳ ἑστάναι. ∆ιὸ καὶ οὕτως εἶπε· Καίτοι γε οὐ μακρὰν ἀπὸ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἡμῶν ὑπάρχοντα, ἀλλ' ἐγγὺς ὄντα πᾶσιν. Ὃ δὲ λέγει, τοῦτό ἐστιν· Οὐ μόνον τὴν ζωὴν ἔδωκε καὶ τὴν πνοὴν καὶ τὰ πάντα· ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ κεφάλαιον ἁπάντων, εἰς γνῶσιν ἤγαγεν αὑτοῦ, δοὺς ταῦτα, δι' ὧν δυνάμεθα εὑρεῖν αὐτὸν καὶ καταλαβεῖν. Ἀλλ' οὐκ ἠθελήσαμεν ζητῆσαι, καίτοι πρὸ ποδῶν ὄντα. Οὐ μακρὰν, φησὶν, ἀπὸ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἡμῶν ὑπάρχοντα. Βαβαί! πᾶσιν ἐγγὺς εἶναι λέγει τοῖς πανταχοῦ τῆς οἰκουμένης οὖσι. Τί τούτου μεῖζον; Ὅρα πῶς καὶ καθαιρεῖ τοὺς μερικούς. Τί λέγω μακράν; Οὕτως ἐγγύς ἐστιν, ὡς χωρὶς αὐτοῦ μὴ ζῇν. Ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ζῶμεν καὶ κινούμεθα καὶ ἐσμέν. Ὡς ἐν σωματικῷ ὑποδείγματι τοιοῦτόν τι λέγει· Ὥσπερ ἀδύνατον ἀγνοῆσαι τὸν ἀέρα πανταχοῦ κεχυμένον, καὶ οὐ μακρὰν ἀφ' ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἡμῶν ὑπάρχοντα, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ ἐν ἡμῖν ὄντα· οὕτω δὴ καὶ τὸν τῶν ὅλων δημιουργόν. Ὅρα πῶς πάντα αὐτοῦ λέγει εἶναι· τὴν πρόνοιαν αὐτοῦ, φησὶ, καὶ τὴν συγκράτησιν, τὸ εἶναι παρ' αὐτοῦ, τὸ ἐνεργεῖν, τὸ μὴ ἀπολέσθαι. Καὶ οὐκ εἶπε, ∆ι' αὐτοῦ, 60.272 ἀλλ' ὃ ἐγγύτερον ἦν, Ἐν αὐτῷ. Οὐδὲν ἴσον εἶπεν ὁ ποιητὴς ἐκεῖνος, Τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος, εἰπὼν, ἐσμέν· ἀλλ' ἐκεῖνος μὲν περὶ τοῦ ∆ιὸς εἶπε, οὗτος δὲ περὶ ∆ημιουργοῦ αὐτὸ λαμβάνει, οὐ τὸν αὐτὸν ἐκείνῳ λέγων, μὴ γένοιτο, ἀλλὰ τὰ κυρίως ἐπ' αὐτῷ εἰρημένα ἁρμόζων· ἐπεὶ καὶ βωμὸν τούτου εἶπεν, οὐκ ἐκείνου, ὃν ἐσέβοντο. Εἴρηται μὲν γάρ τινα καὶ πράττεται εἰς τοῦτον, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἴσασιν Ἕλληνες ὅτι εἰς αὐτὸν, ἀλλ' εἰς ἕτερον αὐτὰ νενοήκασιν. Εἰπὲ γάρ μοι περὶ τίνος ἂν λεχθείη κυρίως, Ἀγνώστῳ Θεῷ, περὶ τοῦ ∆ημιουργοῦ, ἢ περὶ τοῦ δαίμονος; ∆ῆλον ὅτι περὶ τοῦ ∆ημιουργοῦ, εἰ καὶ τὸν μὲν ἠγνόουν, τὸν δὲ ᾔδεσαν. Ὁμοίως καὶ ὅτι πάντα πεποίηκε, περὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἂν εἰρῆσθαι κυρίως ἁρμόσειεν, ἢ τοῦ ∆ιὸς, μιαροῦ τινος ἀνθρώπου καὶ καταπτύστου καὶ γόητος. Οὕτως οὐχ ὁμοίως ἐκείνῳ Παῦλος εἶπε, μὴ γένοιτο, καὶ τὸ, Τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν· ἀλλ' ἑτέρῳ νῷ. Γένος γὰρ Θεοῦ εἶπεν ἡμᾶς εἶναι· τουτέστιν, οἰκείους, ἐγγυτάτους· ἢ ὡς ἄν τις εἴποι, παροίκους καὶ γείτονας. Ἵνα γὰρ μὴ πάλιν λέγωσι, Ξενίζοντα εἰσφέρεις εἰς τὰς ἀκοὰς ἡμῶν (οὐδὲν γὰρ οὕτως ἀνθρώποις ἐναντίον), ἄγει τὸν ποιητὴν εἰς μέσον. Καὶ οὐκ εἶπεν· Οὐκ ὀφείλετε νομίζειν χρυσῷ ἢ ἀργύρῳ τὸ Θεῖον εἶναι ὅμοιον, ὢ μιαροὶ καὶ παμμίαροι· ἀλλὰ ταπεινότερον, Τοῦτο οὐκ ὀφείλομεν