John Bengel Commentary - Acts 17:28 - 17:28

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Act 17:28. Ἐν αὐτῷ) In Him, not in ourselves: ἐν, in, expresses the most efficacious presence flowing from the most intimate tie of connection, so that we cannot think of (feel) ourselves without thinking of (feeling) Him.-ζῶμεν καὶ κινούμεθα καὶ ἐσμὲν we live and move and are [Engl. Vers. have our being]) These verbs are equivalent to those three things in Act 17:25, life and breath and all things: ἐσμὲν, we are, whatever we are, who without Him would have no being at all. Being is implied of that kind which follows motion, as motion follows life.[100] Cypria[101] writes: “We are in the Father, we live in the Son, we have motion and make progress in the Holy Ghost.”-ΤΙΝῈς ΤῶΝ ΚΑΘʼ ὙΜᾶς, certain of your own) Many add ποιητῶν [The margin of both Editions, with the concurrence of the Germ. Vers., leaves the question undecided.-E. B. ΠΟΙΗΤῶΝ is supported by [102]

[103]

[104] Vulg. Orig. It is omitted by [105]

[106]

[107] Iren.]. And indeed Aratus, whose testimony Paul quotes in showing that God is a Spirit, was a poet: but with a weighty effect he abstains from the term poet, and from the name of Aratus.-τοῦ) for ΑὐΤΟῦ, His, i.e. GOD’S.-γένος, offspring) This is an article of natural theology: and in Christian theology it ought not to be so urged, as that more weight should not be given to the other ties of connection which bind us to GOD in Christ; αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐσμεν ποίημα, for we are His workmanship, Eph 2:10.-ἐσμὲν, we are) we all, we men, endowed with mind.

[100] Therefore Bengel takes ἐσμὲν not of our bare existence, as Engl. Vers.; but of all that we are; which follows life and motion.-E. and T.

[101] yprian (in the beginning and middle of the third century: a Latin father). Ed. Steph. Baluzii, Paris. 1726.

[102] the Alexandrine MS.: in Brit. Museum: fifth century: publ. by Woide, 1786-1819: O. and N. Test. defective.

[103] Cod. Basilianus (not the B. Vaticanus): Revelation: in the Vatican: edited by Tisch., who assigns it to the beginning of the eighth century.

[104] Laudianus: Bodl. libr., Oxford: seventh or eighth cent.: publ. 1715: Acts def.

[105] Bezæ, or Cantabrig.: Univ. libr., Cambridge: fifth cent.: publ. by Kipling, 1793: Gospels, Acts, and some Epp. def.

[106] Bezæ, or Cantabrig.: Univ. libr., Cambridge: fifth cent.: publ. by Kipling, 1793: Gospels, Acts, and some Epp. def.

[107] Cantabrigiensis, do.: the Gospels, Acts , , 3 d Ep. John.