Chap:17. A Commentary upon the AcTS. .171 Verfe 22. You are too fstperflitious] You are fearer'ofevil! fpi- t Cor,io :o. Tits; fo one renders it. And Paulelfewhere-tells the Corinthians that what they facrificed to Idols, they facrificed todevils. Verfe 23. I found analtar] An high-altar. fs".7,úe- feemes to come from ;tun an high-place. Saint 'Paul as he preached with- out a pulpit Verfez7. fo he takes his textofone oftheir altars. Any thing ferves turn, fo he may do good. To the unknownGod ] That uncertainty that attends Idolatry, -caufed thofe mariners to call everyman to-iris God, 5onah And left they might ali miftakethe true God,, they awaken7onas alto to call uponhis God. Hence thefe Athenians worfhip an un-- known god : and hence the heathens generally clofed theirpetiti- Ì;v, inóeosg. ons withDuque Deaqúeomnes. Verfe 25. Neither ù 1 orchipped] Colitur vel delinitur;rollo- guedwith or complemented. Colendi verbum ciz 7it remexo,eov asP9: cars.+. dilium volunt eó quód plerrtnque Dei hominumque cultos cuma- dulatione hypocrift eft conjunElus. Sica Tyco' oily Gallicumfat, Stuchius deEa- ter. Some derive the word here ufed asea.7rmuo of the Hebrew Avaras. TaraphorTeraphim Idols or images,6'en.31.3o. udg.17.5: God_, is Ainfworth. not fo worfhipped. Verfe 27. They mightfeelafterhim] Grope after him,as blind -441t atrío -si v. men. The Apoftle dealinghere with Philofophers, difputesPhilo= fophically, (hewing them molt learnedly and divinely the true ufe of .naturall Philofophy , which they were utterly igno- rant of, Though he be notfar] Not fo far as the bark isfrom the tree, the skin.from the fleíh, or the flelh from the bones. Deus intimior nobis intimo nofiro. He is neerer to us then we are to our ferves, though we fee him not. Like as if one hear a preacher bynight , Bogentag. though he fee him not, yet heknowes he is there prefent; So in this cafe. Verfe 28. For in himWe live & c. ] The heathen could fay fi Deus in nobis, agitante calefcimus'illo. We move] Underifand it aswell of themotions oftheminde, as,dithebody. And our being ] As the beames have their being in the Sun, and an accident in the fubjed. Scholaftici:dependentiamcrea toruma Creatorepartim luci , qua in aere remoto Sole , extinguitur, partira vafcislo.aquam.contentam circumfcribenti, partim fìgilloin aquaimpreffo comparant. As Yyy 2
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