Acts 14:15
And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
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Study Note
Paul and Barnabas's protest at Lystra — 'We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God' — represents the earliest recorded Pauline sermon to a Gentile audience with no Old Testament background. The appeal to natural theology (God 'left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons,' v. 17) parallels the Areopagus speech (Acts 17) and signals that Paul adapts his apologetic starting-point to his audience. The language 'living God' (theos zōn) is the Old Testament's characteristic contrast between YHWH and the dead idols (Deuteronomy 5:26; 1 Samuel 17:26), here deployed to Gentiles who had never heard the term. The episode illustrates the early mission's struggle to prevent the message of Jesus from being absorbed into existing Hellenistic religious categories.
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and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:
and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;
Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:
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