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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 17:26 - 17:26
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and hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth - Holding with the Old Testament teaching, that in the blood is the life (Gen 9:4; Lev 17:11; Deu 12:23), the apostle sees this life stream of the whole human race to be one, flowing from one source [Baumgarten].
and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation - The apostle here opposes both Stoical Fate and Epicurean Chance, ascribing the periods and localities in which men and nations flourish to the sovereign will and prearrangements of a living God.