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Act 17:27. Εἰ, if) The way lies open: God is prepared (ready) to be found; but He does not compel a man. He wishes him to be free, in such a way as that, when a man seeks and finds God, this in respect to GOD may be, in some measure, as it were a matter (an act) contingent.-ἄραγε) This particle implies that the attempt is an easy one.-ψηλαφήσειαν, if haply [as well they might] they might feel after) This is a middle term between seek and find. The touch, the coarsest and lowest of the senses, is here appropriately applied to the Gentiles.-καίτοιγε, although) The particle in this place has not so much a concessive force as an intensive force, so as that by it the facility of the “finding” is augmented. It is not necessary that this universe should be thoroughly known: each one may take (derive) an argument from himself.-οὐ μακρὰν, not far) A Litotes [See Append.]; that is to say, He is altogether near and intimately close to us; namely, in the propinquity of His presence, and the tie of connection which binds us to Him. Perverse reason supposes Him to be far off.