Acts 17:28–29

17:28 For in him we live and move about99 and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we too are his offspring.’100 17:29 So since we are God’s offspring, we should not think the deity101 is like gold or silver or stone, an image102 made by human103 skill104 and imagination.105

99	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.’ ”
100	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.
101	tn Or “the divine being.” BDAG 446 s.v. θεῖος 1.b has “divine being, divinity” here.
102	tn Or “a likeness.” Again idolatry is directly attacked as an affront to God and a devaluation of him.
103	tn Grk “by the skill and imagination of man,” but ἀνθρώπου (anthrōpou) has been translated as an attributive genitive.
104	tn Or “craftsmanship” (cf. BDAG 1001 s.v. τέχνη).
105	tn Or “thought.” BDAG 336 s.v. ἐνθύμησις has “thought, reflection, idea” as the category of meaning here, but in terms of creativity (as in the context) the imaginative faculty is in view.