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Acts 17:29-31
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Acts 17:29-31
New English Translation
29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity[a] is like gold or silver or stone, an image[b] made by human[c] skill[d] and imagination.[e] 30 Therefore, although God has overlooked[f] such times of ignorance,[g] he now commands all people[h] everywhere to repent,[i] 31 because he has set[j] a day on which he is going to judge the world[k] in righteousness, by a man whom he designated,[l] having provided proof to everyone by raising[m] him from the dead.”
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- Acts 17:29 tn Or “the divine being.” BDAG 446 s.v. θεῖος 1.b has “divine being, divinity” here.
- Acts 17:29 tn Or “a likeness.” Again idolatry is directly attacked as an affront to God and a devaluation of him.
- Acts 17:29 tn Grk “by the skill and imagination of man,” but ἀνθρώπου (anthrōpou) has been translated as an attributive genitive.
- Acts 17:29 tn Or “craftsmanship” (cf. BDAG 1001 s.v. τέχνη).
- Acts 17:29 tn Or “thought.” BDAG 336 s.v. ἐνθύμησις has “thought, reflection, idea” as the category of meaning here, but in terms of creativity (as in the context) the imaginative faculty is in view.
- Acts 17:30 tn Or “has deliberately paid no attention to.”
- Acts 17:30 tn Or “times when people did not know.”
- Acts 17:30 tn Here ἀνθρώποις (anthrōpois) has been translated as a generic noun (“people”).
- Acts 17:30 sn He now commands all people everywhere to repent. God was now asking all mankind to turn to him. No nation or race was excluded.
- Acts 17:31 tn Or “fixed.”
- Acts 17:31 sn The world refers to the whole inhabited earth.
- Acts 17:31 tn Or “appointed.” BDAG 723 s.v. ὁρίζω 2.b has “of persons appoint, designate, declare: God judges the world ἐν ἀνδρὶ ᾧ ὥρισεν through a man whom he has appointed Ac 17:31.”sn A man whom he designated. Jesus is put in the position of eschatological judge. As judge of the living and the dead, he possesses divine authority (Acts 10:42).
- Acts 17:31 tn The participle ἀναστήσας (anastēsas) indicates means here.
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