Acts 17:24

• §287Paragraph 4 · The CreatorRead at vatican.va

  “Beyond the natural knowledge that every man can have of the Creator,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 17:24-29; Rom 1:19-20.

Irenaeus of Lyons

• Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies III.12Book III

  “Therefore God, winking at the times of ignorance, does now command all men everywhere to turn to Him with repentance; because He hath appointed a day, on which the world shall be judged in righteousness by the man Jesus; whereof He hath given assurance by raising Him from the dead.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 24, etc.

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Tertullian

• Tertullian, Against Praxeas Chapter 16

  “…the Almighty Invisible God, “whom no man hath seen nor can see; He who dwelleth in light unapproachable;” “He who dwelleth not in temples made with hands;” “from before whose sight the earth trembles, and the mountains melt like wax;” who holdeth the whole world in His hand “like a nest;” “whose throne is heaven,…” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 24.

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Eusebius of Caesarea

• Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History IV.16Book IV

  “His words are as follows: “I, too, therefore, expect to be plotted against and put in the stocks by some one of those whom I have named, or perhaps by Crescens, that unphilosophical and vainglorious man.” — editor's note: ξύλῳ ἐντιναγῆναι. Compare Acts xvii. 24, and see Otto’s note on this passage, in his edition of Justin’s Apology (Corpus Apol. Christ. I. p. 204). He says:…

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Clement of Alexandria

• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.19Book I

  “…be not far from every one of us: for in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we also are His offspring.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 22–28.

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• Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11Book V

  “…with hands; neither is worshipped by men’s hands, as if He needed anything; seeing that it is He Himself that giveth to all breath, and life, and all things.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 24, 25.

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Cited together with

• Romans 1:19

  Cited together in Catechism §287.

• Romans 1:20

  Cited together in Catechism §287.

• 1 Corinthians 10:11

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.

• Genesis 22:4

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.

• Exodus 33:18

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.

• Deuteronomy 30:15

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.

• Deuteronomy 30:16

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.

• Psalm 115:15

  Cited together in Catechism §287.

• Psalm 124:8

  Cited together in Catechism §287.

• Psalm 134:3

  Cited together in Catechism §287.

• Proverbs 30:2

  Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies V.11.

• Isaiah 10:14

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.

• Isaiah 40:28

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.

• Isaiah 43:1

  Cited together in Catechism §287.

• Isaiah 66:1

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16 and 1 other place.

• Joel 2:10

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.

• Matthew 28:18

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.

• John 1:1

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.

• John 3:35

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.

• John 5:22

  Cited together in Against Praxeas Chapter 16.

Quotes

• Wisdom 9:9

  God who made the world and everything in it does not dwell in shrines.