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 is, which  thou  speakest  of?"  And  Paul,  standing  in  the  midst  of the  Areopagus,  said:



“Ye men  of  Athens,  passing  and  seeing  your  idols,  I found an altar  on  which  was  written: To  the  unknown  God.  What, therefore, you  worship  without  knowing  it,  this  I preach  to you — God  who  made  the  world  and  all  things  therein. He, being Lord of  heaven  and  earth,  dwelleth  not  in  temples  made  with hands; neither  is  He  served  with  men’s  hands,  as  if  He  needed anything, seeing  it  is  He  who  giveth  to  all  life  and  breath  and all things. He hath  made  of  one, all  mankind  to  dwell  upon  the whole face  of  the  earth,  that  they  should  seek  God,  if  happily they may  feel  after  Him  and  find  Him,  although  He  be  not  far from every  one  of  us:  for  in  Him  we  live  and  move  and  be:  as some  also  of  your  own  poets  said: ‘For  we  are  also  His  offspring.’ Being, therefore,  the  offspring  of  God,  we  must  not  suppose  the divinity to  be  like  gold  and  silver,  or  stone,  the  graving  of  art and device  of  man. And God,  indeed,  having  winked  at  the