Verse 28
28. In him we live We are surrounded by his pervading Spirit as by an atmosphere; yet, contrary to pantheism, distinct from him. As This as refers not to the last clause, but back to Acts 17:26, so as to include the whole thought that God has so formed man as that man should realize him.
His offspring And so cognate with him, and thereby competent to appreciate him. We are the offspring of God only, however, in our spiritual nature. And yet we are so spirit as to be like God, yet not identical with him; there being between the spirit of man and the spirit of God, not only an ineffable sameness, but an ineffable difference.
Your own poets And here the poets, speaking from our higher and more spiritual nature, are the best authority. More than one Greek poet had expressed this sentiment. The very words are contained in the Hymn of Cleanthes, one of the most sublime, and absolutely the most Christianlike production of pagan antiquity. Nearly the same words are found in Aratus, a poet, born, like the apostle, in Cilicia.
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