Acts 17:28 (WEB)
‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’
Catechism · 4
Man's Capacity for God
“For "in him we live and move and have our being."” — Catechism footnote: Acts 17:26-28.
“Ever since the creation of the world his invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.” — Catechism footnote: Rom 1:19-20; cf., Acts 14:15, 17; 17:27-28; Wis 13:1-9.
The Creator
“Beyond the natural knowledge that every man can have of the Creator,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 17:24-29; Rom 1:19-20.
“But because he is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is present to his creatures' inmost being: "In him we live and move and have our being."” — Catechism footnote: Acts 17:28.
Fathers and councils · 26
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.5Book IV
“Nor does he see that, according to the doctrine of Christianity, we all “in Him live, and move, and have our being,” as Paul also taught in his address to the Athenians; and therefore, although the God of the universe should through His own power descend with Jesus into the…” — editor's note: Cf. Acts xvii. 28.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis II.1Book II
“To the same effect also are the words of Paul, in his address to the Athenians, when he says, “In Him we live, and move, and have our being.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“This is the Being in which, to use the words of the Apostle, all things are formed; and we, with our individual share in existence, live and move, and have our being.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28; Col. i. 17.
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Jerome
“You know the meaning of language, or you would not quote Epimenides, Menander, and Aratus.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
Read the whole comment“And when he is arguing with the Athenians upon the Areopagus he calls Aratus as a witness citing from him the words “For we are also his offspring;” in Greek τοῦ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμεν, the close of a heroic verse.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.1Discourse III
“…in the Son who is the less?’ or ‘What wonder, if the Son is in the Father,’ considering it is written even of us, ‘In Him we live and move and have our being?’” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28. Vid. supr. ii. 41, note 11. The doctrine of the περιχώρησις, which this objection introduces, is the test of orthodoxy opposed to Arianism. Cf.…
Read the whole comment “Moreover if we believe man to be, as the divine Scriptures say, a work of God’s hands, how could any defiled work proceed from a pure Power? and if, according to the divine Acts of the Apostles, ‘we are God’s offspring,’ we have nothing unclean in ourselves.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
Read the whole comment“Thus it is not at all unseemly that the Word should be in man, while all things are deriving from Him their light and movement and light, as also their authors say, “In him we live and move and have our being.”” — editor's note: See Acts xvii. 28.
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Augustine of Hippo
“And to the Athenians Thou saidst by Thy apostle, that in Thee “we live, and move, and have our being;” as one of their own poets has said.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
Read the whole comment“…as our Brother, so I pleased Him”): even then our soul pleaseth God, not placed afar off, for, “In Him,” saith one, “we live and move and have our being,” but as a Brother, as a Neighbour, as a Friend.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
Read the whole comment““For He is not far from every one of us, for in Him we live, and move, and have our being.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 27, 28.
Read the whole comment“For all these things see that light: but that life was the light of men; nor is it far from any one of us, for in it “we live, and move, and have our being.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 27, 28
Read the whole comment“Therefore, neither concerning the successions of ages, nor concerning the resurrection of the dead, ought we to consult those philosophers, who have understood as much as they could the eternity of the Creator, in whom “we live, and move, and have our being.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28
Read the whole comment“This good then is not far from every one of us: for in it we live, and move, and have our being.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 27, 28
Read the whole comment“And indeed “He is not far from every one of us,” as the apostle says, who adds, “For in Him we live, and are moved, and have our being.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 27, 28
Read the whole comment“And hence it both lives, and is moved, and is in Him; and so it can remember Him.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28
Read the whole comment“For these Paul also made mention of in the Acts of the Apostles, where, when he had said of God, “For in Him we live and move and have our being” (forasmuch as he was speaking to the Athenians among whom those learned men had existed); he subjoined immediately; “As certain also of your own have said.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
Read the whole comment“And, when speaking to the Athenians, after having spoken a mighty thing concerning God, which few are able to understand, “In Him we live, and move, and have our being,” he goes on to say, “As certain also of your own have said.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
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Ambrose of Milan
“Whence, for instance, came that verse, “His offspring truly are we,” whereof Paul, by prophetic experience, taught, makes use?” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
Read the whole comment“The Apostle tells us, when he says: “In Him we have our being, and live, and move.”” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
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John Chrysostom
“For the word “Life” here refers not merely to the act of creation, but also to the providence (engaged) about the permanence of the things created; it also lays down beforehand the doctrine of the resurrection, and is the beginning of these marvelous good tidings.” — editor's note: Or, “Gospels,” Acts xvii. 28.
Read the whole comment“In imitation of this, Paul also reasons with the Greeks from an heathen altar, and brings forward testimonies from the poets.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 23, 28; 1 Cor. xv. 33; Titus i. 12.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“For these things hath My hand made, and all these things are mine; that He contains all things, as Paul bears witness, For in Him we live and move and have our being, and the psalmist, Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit, and whither shall I fly from Thy face?” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“For in Him we live and move and have our being, according to the double power of that Breathing into us; for we were all inspired by Him with breath, and as many of us as were capable of it, and in so far as we open the mouth of our mind, with God the Holy Ghost.” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
Read the whole comment“And of its fruit, or rather of that of the Spirit within us, by Whom we are ever moved, and specially have now been moved, desiring to have, and perhaps having, nothing of our own?” — editor's note: Acts xvii. 28.
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Clement of Alexandria
“…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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