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in = by. Greek. en. App-104.
have our being = are.
your own poets = the poets with (Greek. kata. App-104.) you. He refers to Aratus, who -was a native of Cilicia (about 270 B. C). Cleanthes (about 300 B.C.) has almost the same words. App-107.
also His offsprings = His offspring also.
offspring. Greek. genos. Translated kind, race, nation. kindred, &c. Offspring only here, Act_17:29, and Rev_22:16. Adam was by creation son of God. Gen_1:27; Gen_2:7. See App-99and Luk_3:38. All mankind are descended from Adam, and in that sense are the posterity or offspring of God. That every child born into the world "comes fresh and fair from the hands of its Maker", and is therefore the direct offspring of God, is emphatically contradicted by Joh_1:13, where the One begotten of God is set in opposition to the rest of mankind who are begotten of the flesh and will of man.