Text -- Acts 17:28 (NET)

17:28 For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Act 17:28

¹ tn According to L&N 15.1, “A strictly literal translation of κινέω in Ac 17:28 might imply merely moving from one place to another. The meaning, however, is generalized movement and activity; therefore, it may be possible to translate κινούμεθα as ‘we come and go’ or ‘we move about’’ or even ‘we do what we do.’”

² sn This quotation is from Aratus (ca. 310-245 b.c.), Phaenomena 5. Paul asserted a general relationship and accountability to God for all humanity.